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Piptadenia buchananii

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Isotype of Piptadenia buchananii Baker F. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Newtonia buchananii (Baker f.) G.C.C. Gilbert & Boutique [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by M. Luchow, 2008
Related name
  • Newtonia buchananii
  • Unrecorded unrecorded
  • Piptadenia buchananii

Flora

Entry for Newtonia buchananii Bak. Gilbert & Boutique [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 1, (1970) Author: J.P.M. Brenan
Names
Newtonia buchananii Bak. Gilbert & Boutique [family LEGUMINOSAE], F.C.B. 3: 213 (1952). — Torre. C.F.A. 2: 261 (1956). — Pardy in Rhod. Agric. Journ. 56: 964 cum photogr. (1956). — Brenan, F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos.: 23 (1959). — F. White, F.F.N.R.: 93 (1962). — Boughey in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 30: 158 (1964) TAB. 5 fig. A. Type: Malawi, Buchanan 192 (BM; FHO; K, holotype).
Piptadenia buchananii Bak. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 1894: 354 (1894). — R.E.Fr. in Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 65 (1914). — Bak. f., Legum. Trop. Afr. 3: 794 (1930). — Steedman, Trees etc. S. Rhod.: 17 (1933). — Gomes e Sousa, Dendrol. Moçamb. 1: 182 cum tab. [185] (1948); op. cit. 5: 107 cum photogr. (1960); Dendrol. Moçamb. Estudo Geral, 1: 227, t. 32 (1966). — Williamson, Uxful Pl. Nyasal.: 98 (1955). — Burtt Davy & Hoyle, rev. Topham, N.C.L. ed. 2: 66 (1958). Type as above.
Information
Tree 10-40 m. high, somewhat buttressed at the base; bark smooth; branchlets densely pubescent when young, often glabrescent later. Leaves 6-27 cm. long (rhachis + petiole); rhachis with a stipitate gland between each pinna-pair; no glands between leaflet-pairs; pinnae (7)12-23 pairs; leaflets (11)38-67 pairs, 2-6(9) x 0·5-1·5(2) mm., linear-oblong, often ± falcate; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Flowers whitish or yellowish, in spikes 3·5-19 cm. long. Anthers with an apical gland that soon falls off. Pod 10-32 x 1·3-2-5 cm. Seeds 4·1-7·5(?8) x 0·9-2·1 cm.
Habitat
Evergreen rainforest, often by streams, rivers and lakes
Altitude range
760–1830 m.
1830
760
Distribution
Mozambique MS Serra de Choa, Vila Gouveia, fl. 4.vii.1941, Torre 2997 (BM; K; LISC).Mozambique Z Serra do Gúruè, fr. 17.ix.1949, Barbosa & Carvalho 4123 (K; LMJ; SRGH).Zambia W Chingola, seedlings 25.viii.1954, Fanshawe 1487 (K).Mozambique N Maniamba, fr. 22.v.1948, Pedro & Pedrógão 6732 (LMJ).Malawi S Zomba, fl. x.1903, Purves 192 (FHO; K).Zimbabwe E Chirinda, fl. ix.1905, Swynnerton 7 (K; SRGH).Zambia N Abercorn, fl. 1933, Miller D 126 (FHO; K); Lake Bangweulu, Samfya Mission, fr. 9.x.1947, Brenan & Greenway 8080 (FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
western Cameroon
Congo
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Angola

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