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Cryptosepalum fruticosum

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Identification
Isotype of Cryptosepalum fruticosum Hutch. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Cryptosepalum exfoliatum (Hutch.) Duvign. & Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cryptosepalum exfoliatum
  • Cryptosepalum fruticosum

Flora

Entry for CRYPTOSEPALUM exfoliatum (Hutch.) Duvign. & Brenan var. fruticosum [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
CRYPTOSEPALUM exfoliatum (Hutch.) Duvign. & Brenan var. fruticosum [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in K.B. 20: 8 (1966). Type: Zambia, Abercorn District, 29 km. NW. of Abercorn, Hutchinson & Gillett 3947 (K, holo. !, BM, BR, iso.!)
CRYPTOSEPALUM fruticosum Hutch. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in K.B. 1931: 238 (fig.), 250 (1931); T.T.C.L.: 100 (1949); J. Léon. in F.C.B. 3: 494 (1952)
Information
Branchlets glabrous. Leaflets glabrous, or pubescent only at extreme base on lower side. Inflorescence-axes and pedicels glabrous.
Range
DISTR. T4
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Kashota, Rwasi Reserve, 16 Apr. 1928, Wigg in F.H. 451 ! & Kalambo R., Aug. 1952, Groome 30 !
Distribution (external)
Zambia
Notes
Michelmore 696, from Tanganyika, Ufipa District, above Kasanga (EA, K), has pubescent stems, 4–5 pairs of leaflets similar to those of var. fruticosum in size and indumentum, and sparsely puberulous inflorescence-axes. In fact it is intermediate between the two varieties.

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