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Cynometra longipedicellata

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Isosyntype of Cynometra longipedicellata Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE]

Filed as Cynometra longipedicellata Harms [family CAESALPINIACEAE]

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Cynometra longipedicellata Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Greenway PJ, 1953

Flora

Entry for CYNOMETRA longipedicellata Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan

CYNOMETRA longipedicellata Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in E.J. 53: 460 (1915); L.T.A.: 758 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 101 (1949); J.Léon, in B.J.B.B. 21:391 (1951). Types: Tanganyika, Lushoto District, Amani, Kwamkoro road, Zimmermann 1989 (B, syn. †, EA, isosyn.!) & Bomole, Zimmermann 1973 (B, syn. †)

Much branched evergreen tree up to 18 m. high, with broad rounded crown. Leaves: petiole with rhachis 2–5 cm. long; stipules persistent, foliaceous, obliquely ovate to ovate-oblong, 0.7–1.5 cm. long; petiole 3–10 mm. long; leaflets (2–)4, sessile, elliptic to ovate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 3–12 cm. long, 2–7 cm. wide, mostly obtuse at apex, not emarginate. Panicles compact; axes pubescent, up to 1–2.5 cm. long; pedicels unusually long (1.5–3.5 cm.), glabrous, jointed about 5 mm. below the hypanthium. Flowers white. Sepals 4, 4–7 mm. long. Petals ± 7–8 mm. long, but damaged ones only examined. Pods unknown.

DISTR. T3 not known elsewhere

TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Amani, 22 Sept. 1939, Greenway 5901 !

Harms states in E.J. 53: 460 (1915) that a specimen of leaves only (Holtz 971) collected in the Pugu Hills near Dar es Salaam may perhaps belong to C. longipedicellata.