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Piptadeniastrum africanum

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Identification
Piptadeniastrum africanum (Hook.f.) Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Piptadenia unrecorded
  • Piptadenia africana
  • Piptadeniastrum africanum
  • Mimosa unrecorded
Common name
  • kornerε (S&F) melawula (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • African greenheart; light African greenheart; false sasswood (Liberia, Baldwin); redwood (Ghana, Chalk & al.)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bébé (RS) (GUINEA, MANDING-MANINKA (Konya)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • blé (RS) (GUINEA, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • the timber - dabema (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast); agboin, dahoma, ikkimi, ofrafraha (Ghana); agboin, ekhimi, ekimi (Nigeria)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • mεε (FCD; S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • dabema (from Nzema, Ivory Coast)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • lolo (FCD; S&F) peiyεŋgσ (FCD; S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • beila (RS) (GUINEA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bé (RS) béa (RS) (GUINEA, LOMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bélé (RS) (GUINEA, KPELLE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • lollo (RS) (GUINEA, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for PIPTADENIASTRUM africanum (Hook. f.) Brenan [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
PIPTADENIASTRUM africanum (Hook. f.) Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in K.B. 1955: 179 (1955); Consp. Fl. Angol. 2: 262 (1956); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 489 (1958). Types: Nigeria, Ansell (K, syn.!) & T. Vogel (K, syn.!)
Piptadenia africana Hook. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in Niger Fl.: 330 (1849); F.T.A. 2: 328 (1871); F.W.T.A. 1: 354 (1928); L.T.A.: 794 (1930); Chalk, Burtt-Davy & Desch, Some E. Afr. Conif. & Legum.: 54 (1932); I.T.U., ed. 2: 228, fig. 51 (1952); Gilb. & Bout. in F.C.B. 3: 226 (1952)
Information
Tree up to 50 m. high, with buttressed base and smooth, usually grey bark. Young branchlets shortly and ± densely rusty (when dry)-pubescent, then glabrescent. Pinnae 10–19 pairs (to 23 pairs on juvenile leaves). Leaflets 30–58 pairs (to 61 on juvenile foliage), linear, ± falcate, 3–8.5 mm. long (to 10 mm. on juvenile leaves), 0.8–1.25 mm. wide. Flowers yellowish-white, in spiciform racemes 4–11 cm. long. Pod 17–36 cm. long, 2–3.2 cm. wide. Seeds (3–)5.3–9.5 cm. long, 1.8–2.5 cm. wide. Fig. 5, p. 22.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4 from Senegal and the Sudan to Angola and the Belgian Congo
Altitude range
1100–1220 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo, near km. 88 on Masindi-Butiaba road, Harris 126 & B25 in F.H. 844!;UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, near km. 21 on road to Kampala, Feb. 1931, Snowden 1957! & Bumpenje Hill near Entebbe, 1 Mar. 1950, Dawkins 530!

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