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Droogmansia giorgii

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Identification
Droogmansia giorgii De Wild. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Droogmansia pteropus (Baker) De Wild. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt B., 1970
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  • Droogmansia pteropus
  • Droogmansia giorgii

Flora

Entry for Droogmansia pteropus var. giorgii De Wild. Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 6, (2000) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Droogmansia pteropus var. giorgii De Wild. Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], comb. et stat. nov.
Droogmansia giorgii De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 13: B14 (1925); in Contrib. Fl. Katanga, Suppl. 2: 68 (1929). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 334 (1929). Type from Dem. Rep. Congo.
Information
Stems velvety. Flowers in distinctly branched inflorescences, 30–50 cm long, the rhachis ± velvety; pedicels 3–9 mm long becoming 1.5 cm long in fruit, densely pubescent. Winged petiole 8–26 × 7–23 mm, oblong or oblong-elliptic, broadly rounded to cordate at the apex, rounded at the base. Leaflet 3–5.5 × 1.4–2 cm, elliptic, finely pubescent above, pubescent to velvety beneath. Standard densely puberulous outside. Stipe attaining 2.8–5 cm in length.
Habitat
Margin of Brachystegia and Julbernardia woodland
Altitude range
c. 1300 m.
1300
1300
Distribution
Zambia W 65.6 km north of Kapiri Mposhi on road to Bwana Mkubwa, fl. & fr. 25.ix.1947, Brenan & Greenway 7983 (EA; K).
Distribution (external)
Dem. Rep. Congo
Notes
The sheet cited does not agree too well with the type, differing in its smaller standard, longer fruit stipe, larger articles and having a leafy branch arising from the middle of the inflorescence. I originally kept it as a separate species, but it is too close to var. whytei to be anything but another variant of D. pteropus.

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