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Albizia umbalusiana

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Identification
Isotype of Albizia umbalusiana Sim [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Albizia anthelmintica (A.Rich.) Brongn. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Albizia umbalusiana
  • Albizia anthelmintica

Flora

Entry for Albizia anthelmintica Brongn. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 1, (1970) Author: J.P.M. Brenan
Names
Besenna anthelmintica A. Rich. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 253 (1847) nom. provis. — Walp., Ann. 2: 461 (1851-2).
Albizia anthelmintica Brongn. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 7: 902 (1860). — Sim, For. F1 Port. E. Afr.: 60 (1909). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 361 (1916) pro parte. — Bak. f., Legum. Trop. Afr. 3: 859 (1930). — Gomes e Sousa, Pl. Menyharth.: 68 (1936). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 341 (1949); F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos.: 148 (1959). — Codd, Trees & Shrubs Kruger Nat. Park: 53 (1951); in Bothalia, 7: 77 (1958). — Pardy in Rhod. Agric. Journ. 53: 952, cum phot. (1956). — Torre, C.F.A. 2: 289 (1956). — Burtt Davy & Hoyle, rev. Topham, N.C.L., ed. 2: 65 (1958). — F. White, F.F.N.R.: 90, fig. 16 L (1962). — Mitehell in Puku, 1: 108 (1963). — Boughey in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 30: 158 (1964). TAB. 23 fig. C. Type from Ethiopia.
Albizia umbalusiana Sim [family LEGUMINOSAE], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 59, t. 55 (1909). Type: Mozambique, Lourenço Marques and Maputo Districts, up to the Libombos, Sim 6200. Type-specimen not traced (see Codd in Bothalia, 7: 78 (1958)).
Albizia anthelmintica var. australis Bak. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Legum. Trop. Afr. 3: 859 (1930). — Torre, C.F.A. 2: 290 (1956). Syntypes from Angola and SW. Africa.
Albizia anthelmintica var. pubescens Burtt Davy [family LEGUMINOSAE], F.P.F.T. 2: xvii, 348 (1932). — O. B. Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 27 (1952). Syntypes from the Transvaal.
Information
Bush or tree 2-9(12) m. high, deciduous; bark smooth, grey to brown; young branchlets glabrous or sometimes shortly pubescent; twigs often with short divaricate almost spinescent-tipped lateral branches. Leaves: rhachides of leaves and pinnae glabrous to shortly pubescent, in all or most leaves projecting at the ends in a short rigid persistent deflexed or downwards-bent hook or claw; often a single stipel similarly bent near the base of the pinnae; pinnae 1-2(4) pairs; leaflets 1-4(5) pairs (7)10-36(42) x (4)6-31 mm., obliquely obovate or elliptic to subcircular, mucronate at the apex, venose, glabrous to ± sparsely shortly pubescent. Flowers usually on leafless twigs, on pedicels 0.5-5.5 mm. long. Calyx pale-greenish, (very rarely 2)3-5 mm. long, glabrous to sparsely finely pubescent outside, irregularly denticulate at the apex and usually slit unilaterally to c. 1-2.5 mm. Corolla pale-greenish, 6-12 mm. long, glabrous, or puberulous on or near the lobe-margins. Staminal tube not or scarcely exserted beyond the corolla; filaments c. 1.5-2.5 cm. long, white. Pod dehiscent, (6)7-18 x 1.5-2.9 cm., oblong, quite glabrous or occasionally puberulous all over, straw-coloured when mature. Seeds 9-13 mm. in diam., flattened, round.
Habitat
In the drier types of woodland, also in wooded grassland, thickets and bushland
Range
From the Sudan and Ethiopia (Eritrea) southwards to the Transvaal and Zululand
Altitude range
c. 30–1070 m.
1070
30
Distribution
Mozambique Z Morrumbala, between Aguas Quentes and Megaza, fl. 12.viii.1942, Torre 4557 (LISC).Malawi S 26 km. S. of Fort Johnston, fl. 5.viii.1960, Leach 10407 (SRGH).Zimbabwe S West Nicholson Distr., Liebig’s Ranch, fr. 26.x.1952, Plowes 1520 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Tanganda R., fl. 15.viii.1961, Lord Methuen 65 (K).Zimbabwe W Wankie, fl. iv.1932, Levy 16 (PRE; SRGH).Zambia S Zambezi Sawmills Railway, near Ngwesi R. crossing, fl. 7.viii.1947, Brenan & Keay 7637 (K).Zambia E Foothills E. of Machinje Hills, fr. 12.x.1958, Robson 67 (BM; K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia C Chingombe, fr. 26.ix.1957, Fanshawe 3740 (K).Zambia N Luangwa Valley, Mwunyamazi R., fr. 30.ix.1933, Michelmore 612 (K).Botswana SE Kgatla Distr., Ramonaka, 13 km. N. of Sikwane, fl. 13.ix.1955, Reynolds 407 (K; PRE).Mozambique N Malema, Mutuali, fl. & fr. 2.ix.1953, Gomes e Sousa 4103 (COI; K; LMJ; PRE).Malawi C Dedza, Mua, fl. 31.vii.1960, Chapman 858 (SRGH).Zimbabwe N Kavira Hotsprings, Mlibizi R., Binga, Sebungwe, fl. 31.ix.1958, Lovemore 550 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zambia B Nangweshi, fl. 21.vii.1952, Codd 7139 (BM; K; PRE).Botswana N Kwebe Hills, fl. viii, fr. ix.1897, Lugard 15 (K).Mozambique M Namaacha, Goba, fl. 23.viii.1944, Mendonça 1846 (LISC).Mozambique GI Govuro, between Mabote and Zimane, fl. 2.x.1944, Mendonça 1953 (LISC).Mozambique MS Gorongosa, between Zangorga and Kanga-N’Thole, fr. 23.x.1956, Gomes e Sousa 4320 (COI; K; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique T Mutarara, Sinjal, fl. 16.viii.1947, Simão 1482 (LISC; LM; SRGH).
Notes
In the Flora Zambesiaca area A. anthelmintica appears always to be ± pubescent, varying from sparsely to densely so. In the more northerly parts of tropical Africa it is usually (and typically) glabrous. Pubescent plants have been separated as var. pubescens Burtt Davy, but this seems at most to represent a weak clinal trend from N. to S., not worth formal taxonomic recognition as there are many gradations.

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