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Smithia strigosa

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Identification
Smithia strigosa Baker,f. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Kotschya stolonifera (Brenan) Dewit & P.A.Duvign. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Smithia strigosa
  • Smithia unrecorded
  • Kotschya strigosa
  • Kotschya stolonifera

Flora

Entry for SMITHIA strigosa Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
SMITHIA strigosa Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Plant. Junghuhn. 211.
Information
An erect shrub 2–3 ft. high with numerous erecto-patent bristly branches. Stipules 3–4 lines long, adnate to the petiole at the base, the points lanceolate acuminate. Leaves fascicled; petiole 1 1/2–2 lines; rachis 5–6 lines; leaflets 10–12-jugate, ascending, folded together, 2–2 1/2 lines long, 1/2 line broad, acute, unequal-sided, strongly-veined, rigidly coriaceous, pale green, bristle-ciliated. Flowers in copious dense sessile axillary heads 1/2 in. long. Calyx sessile, 1/4 in. long, densely bristly in the lower part; teeth cuspidate, 1/2 line broad, reaching down nearly to the base. Bracteoles ovate cuspidate, coriaceous, nearly as long as the calyx. Corolla as long as the calyx; standard and wings violet; keel yellowish. Ovary oblong, biovulate, silky. Pod not seen.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch!
Notes
Discovered by Lyall in Madagascar. The plant published under the name of S. spicata (Spreng. Syst. iii. 323, DC. Prod. ii. 323), from Senegambia, according to Dr. Torrey was a compound of the flowers of a Cassia, with the fruit of Mimosa pudica or sensitiva, and was procured by Perrin from a garden in Guadeloupe.

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