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Kigelia pinnata

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Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC. original illustration from the 'Trees of Central Africa'
Filed as Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. subsp. africana [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Type of Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC.; fruit
Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Syntype of Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC. var. tomentella Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC.
Filed as Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Filed as Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
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Identification
Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Kigelia pinnata

Flora

Entry for KIGELIA pinnata DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 447, (1904) Author: By T. A. SPRAGUE.
Names
KIGELIA pinnata DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Prodr. ix. 247
KIGELIA æthiopica Schinz [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Mém. Herb. Boiss. No. 10, 63, not of Decaisne.
Crescentia pinnata Jacq. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Collect. iii. 203, t. 18.
Tanæcium pinnatum Willd. [family ], Sp. Pl. iii. 312.
Tripinnaria africana Spreng. [family ], Syst. ii. 842.
Information
a tree 20–50. ft. high, with rough bark; leaves ternate; leaflets 5–9 (rarely fewer), elliptic-oblong or obovate, 3–6 in. long, 1 1/4–3 in. broad, abruptly acuminate, rounded or retuse at the apex, serrate or entire, usually glabrous above, glabrous or more or less pubescent below; lateral leaflets subsessile, terminal with petiole 4–13 lin. long; calyx 1–1 1/2 in. long, glandular above, finely pubescent or glabrescent; tube 7–10 lin. long; lobes irregular, unequal; corolla claret-coloured; tube 2 1/2–3 in. long, dilated at the mouth of the calyx; lower cylindric portion 3/4 in. long; limb 3 1/2–6 in. across; lobes pointed, 1 3/4–2 1/2 in. long; stamens inserted 11–12 lin. above base of corolla-tube; anthers 4 1/2–5 1/2 lin. long; disc lobed; ovary 5–6 lin. long, minutely puberulous, sparsely glandular; fruit subcylindric, over 1 ft. long, 5 1/2 × 4 in. across. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Delagoa Bay, Monteiro, 24! 18 miles from Lourenço Marques, Bolus, 9716!

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