Hoffmannseggia

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Hoffmannseggia
Hoffmannseggia glauca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Genus: Hoffmannseggia
Species

21-28, see text

Hoffmannseggia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family known generally as rushpeas. These are pod-bearing herbs and subshrubs native to the Americas and southern Africa.

Species include:

  • Hoffmannseggia burchellii
  • Hoffmannseggia drepanocarpa - sicklepod holdback
  • Hoffmannseggia drummondii - dwarf nicker
  • Hoffmannseggia glauca - Indian rushpea, pig-nut, hog potato
  • Hoffmannseggia lactea
  • Hoffmannseggia microphylla - wand holdback
  • Hoffmannseggia oxycarpa - sharppod rushpea
  • Hoffmannseggia pumilio
  • Hoffmannseggia repens - creeping nicker
  • Hoffmannseggia sandersonii
  • Hoffmannseggia tenella - slender rushpea
  • Hoffmannseggia viscosa

The genus is named for Johann Centurius, Count of Hoffmannsegg, a nineteenth-century German nobleman and botanist.

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