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Piptadenia goetzei

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Name

Identification
Piptadenia goetzei Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Elephantorrhiza goetzei Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Piptadenia goetzei
  • Elephantorrhiza goetzei

Flora

Entry for ELEPHANTORRHIZA goetzei (Harms) Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
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, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
ELEPHANTORRHIZA goetzei (Harms) Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in V.E. 3 (1): 400 (1915); L.T.A.: 802 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 344 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Rufiji District, Goetze 82 (B, holo. †, K, iso.!)
Piptadenia goetzei Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in E.J. 28: 397 (1900)
Information
Shrub or small tree 1–7 m. high, deciduous; bark dark dull brown or red. Young branchlets glabrous, becoming blackish. Leaves up to 42 cm. long, glabrous or nearly so; pinnae 4–31 pairs; leaflets 12–48 pairs, linear to narrowly oblong, 3.5–12 mm. long, 0.7–3 mm. wide, glabrous; midrib starting at distal corner of leaf-base, gradually becoming almost central in the leaf; proximal side of base rounded and almost auriculate; apex acute and nearly symmetrical; lateral nerves and veins not or scarcely visible. Racemes glabrous, 5–22 cm. long; pedicels 1–2 mm. long. Flowers variously described as yellow, or with brownish-violet petals and yellow stamens. Calyx 1–1.5 mm. long. Petals 2.5–3 mm. long. Stamen-filaments about 5 mm. long. Pods linear-oblong, up to 44 cm. long and 2–3 cm. wide, the seeds showing as bumps at intervals. Seeds lenticular, 16–20 mm. long, 14–18 mm. wide and 10–12 mm. thick. Fig. 4, p. 20.
Range
DISTR. T6, 8 possibly in Angola
Altitude range
250–1020 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Rufiji District S. of the R. Rufiji, Nov. 1898, Goetze 82!;TANGANYIKA Songea District Nangurukuru Hill, about 26 km. E. of Songea, 8 Apr. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9549!;TANGANYIKA Kilwa District Mtumbati Valley, Crosse-Upcott 152!
Distribution (external)
; Portuguese East Africa
Nyasaland
Northern Rhodesia (fide Greenway)
Southern Rhodesia

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