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Sophora tomentosa

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Name

Identification
Sophora tomentosa L. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sophora tomentosa
Common name
  • saman dua = spirit’s beans; being inedible (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • naradia (K&A) (SENEGAL, NON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bore (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for SOPHORA tomentosa L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
SOPHORA tomentosa L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Sp. Pl.: 373 (1753); Bak. in F.T.A. 2: 254 (1871), pro parte excl. syn. S. inhambanensis; Taub. in P.O.A. C: 203 (1895); L.T.A.: 595 (1929), pro parte excl. syn.; T.S.K.: 82 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 443 (1949), pro parte; K.T.S.: 376 (1961); Brummitt & Gillett in Kirkia 5: 264 (1966); Yakovlev in Proc. Leningrad chem.-pharm. Inst. 21: 53 (1967). Type: Ceylon, Hermann 1: 61 & 3: 13 (BM, syn.)
Information
Shrub 1–3 m. high. Young branches, petioles, leaf-rhachides and under-surface of leaflets, inflorescences and calyces ± densely white or grey puberulous to tomentose; upper surface of leaflets densely puberulous or pubescent when young but glabrescent later. Leaves with petiole and rhachis together 7–25 cm. long and with (4–)5–7(–9) pairs of leaflets; lateral leaflets broadly elliptic to suborbicular, up to 4 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, asymmetrical at the base with the distal side rounded and the proximal side ± cuneate, rounded at the apex; terminal leaflet slightly larger than the lateral ones, equal-sided and ± cuneate at the base. Flowers many in terminal racemes up to 25 cm. long; bracts linear, 3–5 mm. long, caducous; pedicels 5–10 mm. long; bracteoles apparently absent. Calyx campanulate, 4–6 mm. long, with 5 shallow teeth up to 1 mm. long. Petals yellow; standard 14–20 mm. long, 11–14 mm. wide, the limb cuneate and gradually narrowed below to a short broad claw; wings and keel about equalling or slightly shorter than the standard. Ovary densely ± appressed pubescent. Fruits mostly developing 4–8 seeds. Seeds subglobose, ± 6–7 mm. long, brownish.
Range
DISTR. (of species as a whole). As subsp. tomentosa, but with subsp. occidentalis (L.) Brummitt in West Africa, eastern South America and the West Indies

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