Leobordea platycarpa

{{Short description|Species of legume}}

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| image = Lotononis platycarpa-1945 - Flickr - Ragnhild & Neil Crawford.jpg

| genus = Leobordea

| species = platycarpa

| authority = (Viv.) B.-E. van Wyk & Boatwr.{{cite journal |vauthors=Boatwright JS, Wink M, van Wyk BE | year = 2011 | title = The generic concept of Lotononis (Crotalarieae, Fabaceae): Reinstatement of the genera Euchlora, Leobordea and Listia and the new genus Ezoloba | journal = Taxon | volume = 60 | issue = 1 | pages = 161–77 | doi = 10.1002/tax.601014 }}

| synonyms = *Amphinomia dinteri (Schinz) A.Schreib

• Amphinomia lotoidea (Delile) Maire
• Amphinomia platycarpa (Viv.) Cufod.
• Amphinomia steingroeveriana (Schinz) A.Schreib.
• Capnitis clandestina E.Mey.
• Capnitis porrecta E.Mey.{{cite web | url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=68978 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130116012053/http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=68978 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2013-01-16 | title = Lotononis platycarpa (Viv.) Pic.Serm. record n° 68978 | accessdate = 2008-04-26 | work = African Plants Database | publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica }}
• Leobordea abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich.
• Leobordea lotoidea Delile
• Leobordea persica Jaub. & Spach
• Lotononis abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Kotschy
• Lotononis carinalis Harv.
• Lotononis clandestina (E.Mey.) Benth.
• var. clandestina (E.Mey.) Benth.
• var. steingroeveriana Schinz
• Lotononis dichotoma (Delile) Boiss.
• Lotononis dinteri Schinz
• Lotononis leobordea Benth.
• Lotononis lotoidea (Delile) Batt.
• Lotononis persica (Jaub. & Spach) Boiss.
• Lotononis platycarpa (Viv.) Pic.Serm.
• Lotononis porrecta (E.Mey.) Benth.
• Lotononis sphaerocarpa Boiss.
• Lotononis steingroeveriana (Schinz) Dummer
• Lotus dichotomus Delile ex Walp.
• Lotus platycarpa Viv.
• Lotus platycarpos Viv.

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Leobordea platycarpa is a common annual plant in the drier parts of the African continent found in open ground, roadsides, cultivated ground and other disturbed places or in short grassland on sand.{{cite web | url = http://apps.kew.org/efloras/namedetail.do?flora=fz&taxon=3167&nameid=7550 | title = efloras results for Leobordea latycarpa (as Lotononis latycarpa) | accessdate = 2008-04-26 | author = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | authorlink = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | work = Flora Zambesiaca | publisher = Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew }}