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Dalbergia hostilis

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Identification
Dalbergia hostilis Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Dalbergia armata
  • Dalbergia djalonensis
  • Lonchocarpus unrecorded
  • Dalbergia hostilis
  • Dalbergia rufa
  • `
  • Dalbergia gilletii
Common name
  • wota (CV; FRI) (GHANA ? (Ahe-tifi) akrσma-mσwerε (Akpabla), AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • fεbumbwi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • suŋguru-nabala (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • suŋgutundaba-la (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, YALUNKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • Jerri (AST; JMD) (NIGERIA, BOLE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • kàryà g (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • lawunugε (KM) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for DALBERGIA hostilis Benth. [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)
Names
DALBERGIA hostilis Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 33.
Information
A wide-climbing or occasionally erect bush with a complanate woody trunk half a foot broad by an inch thick with strong spines in stellate clusters. Branches woody, glabrous, thickly armed with spines 1/2–1 in. long. Petiole under an inch long; leaves 3–4 in. long with 15–19 early deciduous glabrous obovate-oblong leaflets 9–15 lines long, opaque on both sides, glaucous below, on petiolules a line long. Flowers in irregular elongated terminal thyrsoid panicles with dense cymose branches glabrous below. Branchlets finely grey-velvety. Pedicels almost obsolete. Calyx campanulate, 3/4 line deep, with deltoid teeth. Corolla whitish, inconspicuous, twice the calyx. Stamens in a single bundle. Pod 1–2-seeded, membranous, 2–3 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, not reticulated against the seeds, narrowed to both ends, below to a very slender pedicel 3–4 lines long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Dr. Welwitsch!Abbeokuta Upper Guinea Dr. Irving!

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