Compilation
Newtonia paucijuga
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Name
Identification
Newtonia paucijuga (Harms) Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Brenan JPM, 1956
Related name
- Newtonia paucijuga
Flora
Entry for NEWTONIA paucijuga (Harms) Brenan [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
NEWTONIA paucijuga (Harms) Brenan [family ], in K.B. 1955: 181 (1955). Type: Tanganyika, ? Uzaramo District, “Pandeberg,” Leopold in Holtz 3207 (B, holo. †, BM, drawing!)
Piptadenia paucijuga Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in E.J. 51: 368 (1914); L.T.A.: 792 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 347 (1949)
Cylicodiscus battiscombei Bak. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in J.B. 67: 198 (1929); L.T.A.: 796 (1930); T.S.K.: 66 (1936); Bogdan in Nature in E. Afr., No. 4: 12(1947); T.T.C.L.: 343 (1949). Type: Kenya, Battiscombe 93 (K, holo.!)
Cylicodiscus paucijugus (Harms) Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in K.B. 1950: 364 (1950)
Information
Tree up to 30 m. high, with smooth, grey to greyish-green and brown bark. Young branchlets (when dry) densely rusty-puberulous, slowly glabrescent. Leaf-rhachis with a sessile ± depressed-hemispherical gland between each pinna-pair; glands also present between leaflet-pairs; pinnae 1–2 pairs; leaflets (1–)2–3 pairs, obovate to elliptic, 0.8–7 cm. long, 0.5–3.9 cm. wide (on saplings to 11 × 5.8 cm.), rounded or emarginate at apex. Spikes about 3–10 cm. long, often paniculate. Anthers without an apical gland. Pod 23–60 cm. long, (1.8–)2.3–3.1 cm. wide. Seeds about 7–8.8 cm. long, 1.7–2.3 cm. wide.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 6,? 8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
75–300 m.
Distribution
KENYA Without precise locality, Battiscombe 93!KENYA “Coast forests,” Webber 607 in C.M. 16977KENYA Kilifi, 17 May 1937, Moggridge 384!TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Longuza, 4 Oct. 1936, Greenway 4649!;TANGANYIKA Tanga District 6 km. SE. of Ngomeni, 2 Aug. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3604!;TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Turiani, June 1944, Wigg in F.H. 1262!
Notes
Harms (l.c.) mentions a specimen, Braun 1277 (Tanganyika, Lindi, Nondora), which is said to be very near N. paucijuga but with somewhat narrower, longer, lanceolate, acute bracts, which are decidedly sharp; this specimen has been identified by Dr. P. J. Greenway as Pseudoprosopis euryphylla Harms. Gillman 1558. Lindi District, may be N. paucijuga, but the material is totally inadequate. Another specimen from Lindi District, collected by the Chief Conservator of Forests at Mtene on the Rondo Plateau, is very close to N. paucijuga but the leaflets are mostly in 3–5 pairs per pinna and only about 1–2 cm. long and 0.5–1.3 cm. wide. This does not exactly match any Kenya material, and it may well be a distinct variety or subspecies. More material is desirable, however, before a verdict is given.