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Platycelyphium voense

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Identification
Commiphora voensis Engl. [family BURSERACEAE ] Platycelyphium voense (Engl.) Wild [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Wild,
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  • Platycelyphium voense
  • Commiphora voensis

Flora

Entry for PLATYCELYPHIUM voense (Engl.) Wild [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
PLATYCELYPHIUM voense (Engl.) Wild [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1959);
Commiphora voensis Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], (1904). Fig. 208 C, D. [type as above]
PLATYCELYPHIUM cyananthum Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1905).
Information
Deciduous tree or shrub 1.5–7.5 m tall; bark peeling when old in papery strips. Leaves up to 10–27 cm long; leaflets (1–)3–7, mostly opposite or subopposite, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, 3.5–7.5(–10) x 2.5–4(–6) cm, glandular-punctate, glabrous to ± pubescent especially beneath, glutinous. Racemes 3–13 cm long, laxly 8–16(–30)-flowered. Calyx purplish-green to almost black, (4–)5–7 mm long, sweetly scented. Pod asymmetrically oblong-elliptic, narrowed to both ends, 5–7.5 x 2–3.7 cm, sparsely to densely pubescent.
Range
C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
150–630 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 1411; Gillett, Hemming & Watson 22604; Thulin 4187.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Notes
Sabansabdho, sabi saydi, saman samando (Som.).

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