Compilation
Pseudoprosopis euryphylla

6 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Pseudoprosopis euryphylla Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Pseudoprosopis euryphylla

Flora

Entry for PSEUDOPROSOPIS euryphylla 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
PSEUDOPROSOPIS euryphylla Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in E.J. 49: 419 (1913); L.T.A.: 806 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 347 (1949). Types: Tanganyika, Kihohu, Koerner 2258 (B, syn. †, EA, isosyn.!) & Lindi District, E. slope of Rondo Plateau, Busse 2555 (B, syn. †, EA, isosyn.!) & Ruaha-Mtua, Braun 1225 (B, syn. †, EA, K, isosyn.!)
Information
Scandent shrub or small tree 3–6 m. high. Young branchlets, petioles and rhachides ± puberulous; older branchlets longitudinally striate. Leaves: petiole 0.5–2.9 cm. long; rhachis 1.7–7 cm. long; pinnae opposite, 2–4 pairs; leaflets 4–9 pairs, (0.5–)0.7–2.1 cm. long, (0.3–)0.6–1.5 cm. wide, rhombic-ovate or -obovate, rounded or slightly emarginate and mucronate at apex, glabrous or almost so except on midrib beneath. Racemes 2–6.5 cm. long, on peduncles 0.7–2.8 cm. long; pedicels 1.5–4 mm. long; axes and pedicels densely and shortly pubescent; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, not enlarged at apex. Flowers white. Calyx 0.75–1 mm. long, densely and shortly pubescent. Petals 2.5–3 mm. long, densely puberulous outside. Stamen-filaments 4–5.5 mm. long. Ovary densely hairy. Pods 7–11 cm. long, 1.3–1.8 cm. wide, attenuate below, blackish when dry, obliquely ± longitudinally striate. Seeds about 8 mm. long and 5–7 mm. wide.
Range
DISTR. T8
Altitude range
450–790 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Lindi District Mingoyo, Gillman 1366! & Rondo Plateau, S. side, Dec. 1951, Eggeling 6411!;TANGANYIKA Newala District Makonde Plateau, Gillman 1015! & Mahuta, 12 Dec. 1942, Gillman 1066!
Distribution (external)
; Portuguese East Africa

Related Materials