Dalbergia nitidulaWelw. ex Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Dalbergia nitidulaWelw. ex Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Sausa,E.P.,
Related name
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Flora
Entry for DALBERGIA nitidula Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
A tree 25–35 ft. high, with a trunk 1–2 ft. thick, and unarmed finely grey-velvety woody branchlets. Petioles woody, 6–9 lines long; leaves 3–4 in. long, with 11–13 oblong shining coriaceous bluntish leaflets 12–20 lines long, 8–9 lines broad, rounded at the base, opaque and finely grey-velvety below, on petiolules a line long. Flowers in densely congested sessile axillary panicles. Pedicels nearly obsolete. Calyx campanulate, finely brown-velvety, 1/8 in. deep, the deltoid teeth reaching a third down. Corolla 3 1/2 lines long, reddish, the keel shorter than the wings and unguiculate orbicular recurved standard. Stamens equally diadelphous. Ovary linear, densely silky, with a distinct pedicel. Pod not seen.