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Pterocarpus sericeus

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Identification
Pterocarpus sericeus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Dalbergia obovata E.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Dalbergia ovalifolia unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Pterocarpus rotundifolius
  • Pterocarpus sericeus
  • Dalbergia rotundifolia
  • Dalbergia ovalifolia
  • Dalbergia obovata
  • Pterocarpus buchanani

Flora

Entry for PTEROCARPUS sericeus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
PTEROCARPUS sericeus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! l. c. p. 75
Dalbergia rotundifolia Sond. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! in Linn. 23, p. 35.
Information
leaflets 3–5, broadly ovate, shining silky beneath or on both sides; legume shortly stipitate, ovate-suborbicular, with a coriaceous wing. Twigs thinly and appressedly silky. Under-surfaces of the young leaflets pale, of the older concolourous, all densely silky; upper surface puberulous, at length glabrate and netted. Petioles 2–4 inches long. Leaflets 1 1/2–2 inches long. Flowers not seen. Legume 1 1/2 inch long, about 12–14 lines wide, minutely stipitate-elliptical, membranaceo-coriaceous, veiny.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hex and Aapjes Rivers, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Sd.)

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