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Cathormion altissimum

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Name

Identification
Cathormion altissimum (Hook.f.) Hutch. & Dandy [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Cathormion altissimum
Common name
  • tomatσmda (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • busé (Perrot & Gerard) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • foraberu (Perrot & Gérard) (SENEGAL, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • mee (FCD) yi-wσ (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • foraberu after Crioulo (RS) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • (Guinea-Bissau) nétéchango (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, FULA-PULAAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for Cathormion altissimum (Hook. f.) Hutch. & Dandy [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
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
Cathormion altissimum (Hook. f.) Hutch. & Dandy [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in F.W.T.A. 1: 364 (July 1928) & in K.B. 1928: 401 (Dec. 1928); I.T.U., ed. 2: 223 (1952); Consp. Fl. Angol. 2: 298 (1956); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 504 (1958). Types: Ghana, Cape Coast, T. Vogel (K, syn.!) & Nigeria, Ibo country, T. Vogel (K, syn.!)
Albizia altissima Hook. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Niger Fl.: 332 (1849)
Pithecolobium altissimum (Hook. f.) Oliv. [family FABACEAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], F.T.A. 2: 364 (1871); L.T.A.: 870 (1930)
Arthrosamanea altissima (Hook. f.) Gilb. & Bout. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in B.J.B.B. 22: 182 (1952) & in F.C.B. 3: 193 (1952)
Information
Shrub or tree 5–35 m. high, unarmed or (I.T.U., ed. 2: 223) often spinous on juvenile and sucker shoots; crown spreading. Young branchlets puberulous. Leaves: rhachides ± densely and shortly crisped-pubescent or puberulous; pinnae 5–7 pairs; leaflets 11–22(–25 fide I.T.U.) pairs, somewhat obliquely oblong, and widest near the base which is slightly auricled on both sides, 7–15 mm. long, 2.5–6 mm. wide, narrowed to a usually obtuse apex, glabrous on both surfaces except for ciliolate margins at base, with the lateral nerves rather close and fine; the basal pair of leaflets on each pinna is characteristically represented by a single leaflet only, on the lower side, that on the upper side being replaced by a minute stipel. Inflorescences on peduncles 1.2–4.5 cm. long. Flowers white, sessile or subsessile. Calyx 3–3.5 mm. long, glabrous or subglabrous except on teeth. Corolla 5–7 mm. long, glabrous outside. Pods about 10–28 cm. long, 1.3–2 cm. wide, ± regularly lobed along one or both sutures which are puberulous, the pod otherwise subglabrous or sparingly puberulous. Seeds ± flattened, brown, 6–9 mm. long, 6.5–7 mm. wide. Fig. 23.
Range
DISTR. U2 from Sierra Leone and the Sudan southwards to Angola, Northern Rhodesia and Uganda
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Siba R. area, Nov. 1932, Harris 166 in F.H. 1126!
Notes
? Pithecolobium stuhlmannii Taub. (in P.O.A. C: 193 (1895); L.T.A.: 870 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 347 (1949)), based on Stuhlmann 2773 from Bataibo on the R. Duki (B, holo. †), was not collected in Tanganyika as stated in L.T.A., but in the Belgian Congo west of Lake Albert. It is certainly a Cathormion, and most probably synonymous with C. altissimum.

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