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Philenoptera kanurii

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Identification
Isotype of Lonchocarpus kanurii Brenan & J.B.Gillett [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Philenoptera kanurii (Brenan & J.B. Gillett) Schire [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Philenoptera kanurii
  • Lonchocarpus kanurii

Flora

Entry for PHILENOPTERA kanurii (Brenan & Gillett) Schrire [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PHILENOPTERA kanurii (Brenan & Gillett) Schrire [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (2000);
Lonchocarpus kanurii Brenan & Gillett [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1983). Fig. 209. [type as above]
Information
Shrub or small tree, to 7 m tall. Leaves to 13 cm long; leaflets (1–)3–7, elliptic to ovate, obovate or suborbicular, 0.5–5.5 x 0.5–4 cm, obtuse to emarginate at the apex, glabrous or subglabrous above, appressed puberulous beneath; venation fairly prominent. Panicles 5–13 cm long, with fairly numerous flowers. Calyx c. 5 mm long, appressed puberulous. Corolla purple, c. 12 mm long. Pod oblong to elliptic-oblong, 4.5–10 x 1.5–2.5 cm, prominently veined, narrowly winged along upper margin, appressed puberulous. Seeds 1–3, subreniform, c. 1 x 0.7 cm.
Range
S2, 3
Altitude range
90–170 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Rose Innes & Trump 953; Thulin & Warfa 5283, 5312.
Distribution (external)
E Kenya

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