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Markhamia zanzibarica

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Identification
Muenteria stenocarpa Welw. ex Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Markhamia zanzibarica (Bojer ex DC.) K.Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Spathodea puberula
  • Spathodea zanzibarica
  • Markhamia zanzibarica
  • Spathodea unrecorded
  • Markhamia puberula
  • Dolichandrone unrecorded
  • Markhamia stenocarpa
  • Dolichandrone stenocarpa
  • Dolichandrone hirsuta
  • Markhamia acuminata
  • Markhamia infundibuliformis
  • Muenteria stenocarpa
  • Dolichandrone latifolia

Flora

Entry for MARKHAMIA zanzibarica (Bojer ex DC.) K. Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Tardelli & L. Settesoldi (Jacaranda, Kigelia, Markhamia, Rhigozum, Tecoma) and M. Thulin (Crescentia, Spathodea, Tabebuia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
MARKHAMIA zanzibarica (Bojer ex DC.) K. Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE], (1894);
Spathodea zanzibarica Bojer ex DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE], (1845). Fig. 210. [type as above]
Information
Tree or shrub, up to 10 m tall; branchlets with conspicuous lenticels. Pseudostipules subcircular to obcordate, 0.5–1 cm in diam. Leaves up to 25 cm long; petiole 3–6 cm long; leaflets 3–7, sessile or with petiolule up to 5 mm long; blade of leaflets elliptic-obovate to ovate-subcircular, slightly asymmetric at the base, cuspidate to retuse at the apex, with entire to serrate margin, apical leaflet up to 10 x 8 cm, the lateral ones decreasing in size towards the base of the leaves, 2.5–6 x 2–3 cm, with 5–6 pairs of lateral nerves, impressed above and prominent below, lower surface with domatiae and sometimes scattered circular black glands. Panicles 5–20 cm long; pedicels up to 1.5(–2) cm long, with 2 bracts below the middle. Calyx 10–15 mm long, splitting at one side. Corolla yellow-greenish flecked with maroon; tube 20–30 mm long; lobes subcircular, 10–15 mm in diam. Stamen-filaments 7–14 mm long; anther-thecae c. 1.5 mm long. Disk 1–3 mm in diam. Style 10–25 mm long. Capsule 20–60 x 0.9–1.5 cm, straight or slightly curved. Seeds 4–6 x 20–40 mm including the wing.
Range
S1–3 Kenya and southwards to South Africa.
Altitude range
30–200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Paoli 747; Thulin & Warfa 4739; Friis, Vollesen & Abdisalam Hassan 4924.
Notes
Geed-cad, geed idey, geed raamod, goodudis madone, luff (Som.).

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