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Parkinsonia anacantha

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Isotype of Parkinsonia anacantha Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Parkinsonia anacantha Brenan from Kenya
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Name

Identification
Parkinsonia anacantha Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Parkinsonia anacantha

Flora

Entry for PARKINSONIA anacantha Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
PARKINSONIA anacantha Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in K.B. 17: 209 (1963). Type: Kenya, Meru District, between Mt. Kinna and Garba Tula, T. Adamson in E.A.H. 12684 (K, holo.!)
Information
Shrub up to 2.1 m. high or spreading tree, unarmed. Young branchlets shortly appressed-pubescent or puberulous, later glabrescent and turning grey-brown. Leaves with petiole 1.5–4.5 cm. long and rhachis 1.5–11.8 cm. long; pinnae 2–6 pairs; leaflets 4–9 pairs, oblong-elliptic, 3–10 mm. long, 1.5–5 mm. wide, rounded or slightly emarginate at apex, appressed-puberulous especially beneath. Racemes 2.5–10 cm. long. Sepals ± 7 mm. long. Petals yellow, the upper one 11–12 mm. long and 6–6.5 mm. wide, shortly (3 mm.) unguiculate at base; the other petals elliptic or rhombic-elliptic, 10–12 mm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, somewhat narrowed towards apex. Pods narrowly elliptic to linear-oblong, 6.5–11.5 cm. long, 0.9–1.6 cm. wide, 1–4-seeded, obtuse to subacute at apex, attenuate at base; valves thin, papery, closely finely and almost longitudinally veined; upper suture somewhat thickened and longitudinally channelled. Seeds somewhat compressed, ellipsoid, ± 9 mm. long and 5–6 mm. wide, brown, smooth.
Range
DISTR. K1, 4, 7 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
300–910 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Lorian, end of Golana Gof, 19 Jan. 1943, Bally 2107! & 22km. N. of Isiolo, 14 Oct. 1963, Verdcourt 3798 !KENYA Tana River District Garissa road near Tula [Tola], 7 Dec. 1947, L. C. Edwards 168 !
Notes
Easily separated from P. scioana by being unarmed and having larger petals.

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