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Heterophragma longipes

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Identification
Heterophragma longipes Baker [family BIGNONIACEAE ] Fernandoa magnifica Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] Verified by Diniz, M.A., Fernandoa magnifica Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bidgood, S., Stereospermum unrecorded unrecorded [family BIGNONIACEAE ] Spathodea unrecorded unrecorded [family BIGNONIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heterophragma longipes
  • Spathodea unrecorded
  • Stereospermum unrecorded
  • Fernandoa magnifica

Flora

Entry for FERDINANDIA magnifica Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 516, (1905) Author: (By T. A. Sprague).
Names
FERDINANDIA magnifica Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1870, 280 (Ferdinandoa magnifica).
Fernandoa magnifica Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1871, 81.
Fernandia Ferdinandi K. Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 332, partly (as regards the East African localities, excluding synonymy).
Heterophragma longipes Baker [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 31.
Information
A glabrous shrub. Leaves 1 ft. or more in length; leaflets 9–13, subsessile, ovate or ovate-oblong, rather long acuminate, unequally obtuse at the base, 1–5 in. long, 8–21 lin. broad, finely reticulate on both surfaces. Cymes axillary, corymbose, 4–10-flowered, 6–8 in. long excluding the flowers; pedicels 2–4 in. long. Buds oblong-ellipsoidal, apiculate. Calyx glandular outside; tube 5–6 lin. long; lobes ovate-deltoid, mucronulate, 3–5 lin. long. Corolla glabrous; tube 2 in. long or more, narrowed to a cylindric basal portion 2 lin. long; lobes 1 in. long. Stamens inserted 3 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anther-lobes 4–5 lin. long; filaments much flattened. Ovary 4 lin. long, glabrous. Ovules arranged in 4–6 irregular rows in each cell.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land near Mombasa, Wakefield!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Umba Valley, Kässner, 83! Lake Chidia, near the Rovuma River, Kirk!

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