Isotype of Baphia heudelotianaBaill. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Soladoye M., 1981
Related name
Baphia heudelotiana
Flora
Entry for BAPHIA Heudelotiana Baillon [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
BAPHIA HeudelotianaBaillon [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Adans. vi. 216 (adnot.).
Information
An erect shrub 12–20 ft. high, the branches densely clothed with pale ferruginous tomentum. Petioles 1/2 in. long, tomentose; leaves oblong, 4 in. long by half as broad, acute, the base rounded, subcoriaceous, glabrescent, midrib on both sides ferruginous-silky. Flowers (in our single specimen) down amongst the leaves in erecto-patent racemes 3–4 in. long, the rachis tomentose; pedicels erecto-patent, 1/4– 1/2 in. long; bracteoles round, under a line deep. Calyx 1/4 in. deep, ferruginous-silky, with rather narrower divisions than in the last, the corolla nearly twice as long; standard 1/2 in. broad. Ovary linear, sessile, densely silky, with four ovules. Pod not seen.
