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Erythrophleum africanum

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Name

Identification
Erythrophleum africanum (Welw. ex Benth.) Harms [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erythrophleum africanum
Common name
  • diégélé (JB) dievèl (JB) kobala talé (JB) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • African blackwood (Irvine)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ninimonovi (K&A) (SENEGAL, TUKULOR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • kéko (J (SENEGAL, MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • gerombélé (JB) guéli téli (JB) kabala (JB) koy the dead tree (K&A) pèl, péli, pelli the living tree (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for Erythrophleum africanum [family FABACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Erythrophleum africanum [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Gleditsia africana Welw. ex Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 : 304 (1865), as Gleditschia; Oliv. in F.T.A. 2 : 265 (1871); Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 1 : 289 (1896). Syntypes as above. Erythrophleum pubistamineum Hennings in Garten-flora 38 : 39, t.8 (1889). Type: Angola, Malange, Mechow 185 (B, holo.). E. pubistamineum var. parvifoliumSchinzin Mem. Herb. Boiss. 1 :119(1900). Type: Angola, Omupanda in Uukuanjama, Wulfhorst 31 (Z, holo.!). E. africanum var. stenocarpum Harms in Notizbl. Bot. Gait. Bed. 13 : 414 (1936); Brenan, _Checklist Tang. Terr. 103 (1949). Type: Tanzania, ' Lindi District, Lake Lutamba, Schlieben 6536 (BM, iso.!). Caesalpinioides africanum (Welw. ex Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1 : 167 (1891). Type as for Ery­throphleum africanum.
Information
Tree up to 15 m high. Bark grey or grey-brown, ± rough or smooth; young branch-lets usually densely pubescent or tomentose with grey-brown hairs, sometimes glabres-cent. Leaves: petioles, rhachides and rhachil-lae usually densely pubescent or tomentose, seldom glabrescent (in our area); petiole 1,5-5 cm long (in our area); rhachis 3-10 cm long (in our area), with a small gland at the junction of each pinna pair; pinnae (2)3-4(5) pairs (in our area most leaves have 3 pairs); rhachillae 4-12 cm long (in our area); leaflets (6)8-15 per pinna, 1,1-5(6) cm long, 0,9-2,5(3) cm wide (in our area), narrowly elliptic to elliptic, or with an ovate to rhombic tendency, usually somewhat asymmetric, obtuse or sometimes rounded and ± emar-ginate apically, not acuminate, coriaceous, with conspicuous venation, usually appressed-pubescent above and below, sometimes glabrous above or glabrous above and below except for pubescence on the midrib; petio-lules 1-2 mm long. Racemes 3,5-8 cm long including the peduncle (
Habitat
E. africanum is an extremely variable species, particularly in the degree of pubescence. One of the syntypes, Welwitsch 591, is densely pubescent, while the other, Welwitsch 573, is subglabrous.
Use
1. Erythrophleum africanum (Welw. ex Benth.) Harms in Feddes Repert. 12 : 298 (1913); De Wild., Contr. Fl. Katanga, Suppl. 1 : 23 (1927); Bak.f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 777 (1930); Brenan, Checklist Tang. Terr. 103 (1949); Wilczek in F.C.B. 3 : 244 (1952) O. B. Miller in J. S. Afr. Bot. 18 : 32 (1952) Pardy in Rhod. Agric. J. 52 : 513 (1955) Torre & Hillc. in C.F.A. 2 : 252 (1956); Keay in F.W.T.A. ed.2, 1 : 484 (1958); F. White, For. Fl. N. Rhod. 124, fig. 20B (1962); Brenan in F.T.E.A. Legum.-Caesalp. : 20 (1967); Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 59 : 14 (1967); Ross in Bothalia 10 : 44 (1969); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2 : 831 (1973); Schreiber in Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. Miinchen 11 : 129 (1973). Syntypes: Angola, Huila, Mumpula, Welwitsch 591 (BM!); and Pungo Andongo, Calundo, Welwitsch 573 (BM!, K!).
Range
Widespread in tropical Africa from Senegal to the Sudan and Tanzania (absent from Uganda and Kenya), southwards to South West Africa, Botswana, Rhodesia and Mozambique. Occurs in deciduous woodland.

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