Compilation
Cynometra suaheliensis

2 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Cynometra suaheliensis (Taub.) Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Milne-Redhead, E., Theodora fischeri Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE ] Verified by Taubert,
Related name
  • Theodora fischeri
  • Cynometra unrecorded
  • Cynometra suaheliensis

Flora

Entry for CYNOMETRA suaheliensis (Taub.) 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 suaheliensis (Taub.) Bak. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], L.T.A.: 759 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 101 (1949); J. Léon. in B.J.B.B. 21: 391 (1951), pro parte, excl. syn. C. sp. No. 13 et spec. Greenway 2956; K.T.S.: 103 (1961). Types: Kenya, Mombasa, Wakefield (B, syn. †, K, isosyn.!) & Tanganyika, Pangani, Stuhlmann 365 (B, syn. t)
Theodora suaheliensis Taub. [family ], in P.O.A. C: 198 (1895)
Schotia suaheliensis (Taub.) Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in V.E. 3(1): 454, fig. 248 (1915)
Cynometra sp. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], sensu T.S.K.: 64 (1936)
Information
Evergreen shrub or tree 5–15 m. high; bark smooth, red-grey (Graham U.767 in F.H. 2238) or rough (Tanner 3596); young branchlets puberulous or shortly pubescent. Leaves: stipules not apparent (? absent); petiole 2–3 mm. long, puberulous; rhachis 0.4–1.3 cm. long (–2.7 cm. on juvenile shoots), broadly channelled or almost winged above; leaflets 4, with glabrous or puberulous petiolules, asymmetrically obovate-elliptic or elliptic, 0.7–8 cm. long, 0.5–4.4 cm. wide (larger on juvenile shoots), mostly rounded at apex, not gradually tapering, glabrous. Racemes or panicles terminal, 2–9 cm. long; axes densely puberulous; pedicels 3.5–7 mm. long, glabrous to slightly puberulous, jointed at top below flower. Flowers white. Sepals 4, 3–3.5 mm. long. Petals 5, oblong-lanceolate, ± 3.5–5.5 mm. long. Pods smooth, 4–6 cm. long, 2–3 cm. wide, on a stipe ± 0.5 cm. long, shortly (± 2–3 mm.) beaked at apex.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
sea-level–150 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kinango, Jan. 1930, R. M. Graham U.767 in F.H. 2238!KENYA Kilifi District Sabaki R. 6 km. N. of Malindi, 11 Nov. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 737 ! & 40 km. NW. of Malindi, Marafa, 21 Nov. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 824 !TANGANYIKA Pangani District Bushiri, 30 Nov. 1950, Faulkner Kew No. 699! & Pangani, Sakura, Mwera, 10 July 1957, Tanner 3596 !
Notes
Holtz 6955, from Uzaramo District, Pugu Hills, 29 Nov. 1903 (EA!), represents either a very marked variant of C. suaheliensis or a distinct species. It differs from C. suaheliensis in having pedicels densely and shortly pubescent, in the two pairs of leaflets on each leaf being subequal in size and the terminal pair less obovate. More and better material is much needed.

Related Materials