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Cynometra webberi

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Name

Identification
Cynometra webberi Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CYNOMETRA webberi Bak. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
CYNOMETRA webberi Bak. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in J.B. 67: 196 (1929); L.T.A.: 761 (1930); T.S.K.: 64 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 101 (1949); J. Léon. in B.J.B.B. 21: 392 (1951); K.T.S.: 103 (1961). Type: Kenya, coastal forests, Webber 603 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
Information
Evergreen tree 4.5–18 m. high, with bushy crown, buttressed base to trunk, and smooth grey bark; young branchlets shortly pubescent to puberulous. Leaves: stipules not seen; petiole 1–3 mm. long, puberulous; rhachis 0.8–3(–4) cm. long, conspicuously channelled above; leaflets normally 6–8 (although occasional reduced leaves with only 4 may be present also), elliptic to obovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 0.9–3.2(–4.2) cm. long, 0.4–1.2(–2.5) cm. wide, rounded to obtuse or sometimes slightly emarginate at apex, not gradually tapering, glabrous or almost so. Panicles mostly terminal, 2–14 cm. long; pedicels 1.5–10(–12, fide Léonard) mm. long, pubescent like the panicle-axes, jointed below the flower. Flowers sweetly scented. Sepals 4, green, 2–3 mm. long. Petals 5, white, 3.5–4.5 mm. long. Pods smooth, 4–6 cm. long, 2.6–3.3 cm. wide, apiculate. Fig. 19.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
near sea-level to ± 150 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District 5 km. S. of Mazeras, Mwachi, 10 Sept. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 4257 !KENYA Kilifi District Arabuko, Oct. 1929, R. M. Graham B. 699 in F.H. 2168 ! & 40 km. NW. of Malindi, Marafa, 22 Nov. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 838 !TANGANYIKA Tanga District Mtotohovu, 8 Dec. 1935, Greenway 4241 ! & Steinbruch Gorge, 3 Nov. 1957, Faulkner 2091 !TANGANYIKA Uzaramo District 88 km. W. of Dar es Salaam on Morogoro road, 26 Aug. 1951, Trapnell 2170 !

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