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Dalbergia acariiantha

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Identification
Isotype of Dalbergia acariiantha Harms [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for DALBERGIA acariiantha Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
DALBERGIA acariiantha Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in N.B.G.B. 12: 511 (1935); T.T.C.L.: 418 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Lindi District, about 80 km. from Lindi, valley of R. Lukuledi at Nyangao [Njangau], Schlieben 5508 (B, holo. †, BM, iso. !)
DALBERGIA vacciniifolia [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], [sensu T.T.C.L.: 418 (1949), pro parte, quoad specim. Busse 580, non Vatke]
Information
Scandent shrub or small tree, up to 3.6 m. tall, sometimes with some relatively short bluntly pointed branches at older nodes. Branchlets pubescent with spreading mostly crisped hairs, glabrescent. Leaves 7–11 cm. long; stipules not seen, fugaceous; lateral leaflets 5–8 on either side of rhachis, oblong, 1.2–2.3 cm. long, 0.7–1.1 cm. wide, truncate to slightly emarginate at apex, broadly cuneate to rounded at base, appressed pubescent on both surfaces but only thinly so above; primary lateral nerves ± 8–10 on either side of midrib, somewhat ascending. Panicles axillary on leafy branches, 2–4 cm. long, sparingly branched and somewhat corymbose; axes pubescent; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 0.5–1 mm. long, caducous; bracteoles at top of 0.5–1 mm. long pedicel, similar. Calyx 2–2.5 mm. long, sparsely hairy. Corolla 3–3.5 mm. long, white; standard obovate with well-developed claw, glabrous (or fide Harms, with a few scattered hairs outside); wings practically as long as standard and slightly exceeding keel. Stamens 10, united or irregularly divided into 2 phalanges. Fruit not seen.
Range
DISTR. T6, 8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
0–600 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Uzaramo District near Kiserawe, Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve, Nov. 1964, Procter 2739 !TANGANYIKA Kilwa District Barikiwa, Dec. 1900, Busse 580 !TANGANYIKA Lindi District Lake Lutamba to base of Rondo scarp, Nov, 1953, Eggeling 6754 !
Notes
Sheets of Busse 580 (cited above) and Koerner in Herb. Amani 2248 (EA!) from near Lindi, Mtua, were distributed bearing the determination D. micrantha Harms, a name which was never published. These gatherings are, however, cited by Harms with the description of D. acariiantha.

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