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Peltophorum pterocarpum

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Name

Identification
Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) Backer ex K. Heyne [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Peltophorum pterocarpum
Common name
  • peltophorum à fruit ailé (Berhaut)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • peltophorum; yellow flame; copperpod., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for Peltophorum pterocarpum [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
Peltophorum pterocarpum [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Inga pterocarpa DC, Prodr. 2 : 441 (1825). Type as above. Caesalpinia ferruginea Decne., Descr. Herb. Tim. 134 (1834). Type from Indonesia (Timor). Peltophorum ferrugineum (Decne.) Benth., Fl. Austral. 2 : 279 (1864); Bak.f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 612 (1930). Type as for Caesalpinia ferruginea. P. africanum var. speciosum Burtt Davy in Kew Bull. 1921 : 50 (1921), pro parte quoad spec. Maurit. sed excl. spec. Rhod.
Information
Tree up to 15 m high; young branchlets shortly rusty brown-tomentose, sometimes becoming glabrescent with age. Leaves: petiole and rhachis together up to 35 cm long, rusty brown-tomentose when young; pinnae 7—14 pairs; rhachillae 4-13 cm long; leaflets (5)9-17(20) pairs per pinna, 8-21 mm long, 3,5-9 mm wide, ± oblong or oblong-rhombic, asymmetric basally, rounded and usually emarginate (never mucronate) apically, glabrous or appressed-pubescent on both surfaces. Stipules simple and incon­spicuous. Inflorescence like that of P. afri­canum but usually larger and with more branches. Flowers yellow, on rusty-tomentose or pubescent pedicels 4-10 mm long. Calyx rusty-tomentose or pubescent outside, lobes (5)6-8(10) mm long. Petals 13-23 mm long. Ovary rusty-pubescent. Pods 4-12 cm long, 1,6-3,2 cm wide, narrowly elliptic to oblong.
Habitat
P. pterocarpum differs from P. africanum in having unbranched stipules and typically larger leaflets which are usually emarginate and not mucro­nate apically.
Use
2. Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) Heyne, Nutt. PL Ned.-Ind. ed.2, 2 : 755 (1927); Brenan in F.T.E.A. Legum.-Caesalp. : 17 (1967). Type from Indonesia (Timor).
Range
Native of tropical Asia and Australia, but widely planted for ornament.

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