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Xylia torreana

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Paratype of Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIM]
Paratype of Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIM]
Paratype of Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIM]
Paratype of Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIM]
Isotype of Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIM]
Filed as Xylia torreana Brenan [family MIMOSACEAE]
Isotype of Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Xylia torreana Brenan original illustration from Flora Zambesiaca
Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
Holotype of Xylia torreana Brenan [family FABACEAE]
Paratype of Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIM]
Filed as Xylia torreana Brenan [family MIMOSACEAE]
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Xylia torreana Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Xylia torreana [family FABACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Xylia torreana [family FABACEAE]
Information
Tree up to 15 m high, with rough dark brown to grey bark; branchlets, petioles, leaf-rhachillae and peduncles sparingly to densely brown-pubescent or tomentellous. Leaves: petiole 2-7 cm long, with a gland just below the junction of the solitary pair of pinnae; rhachillae 5-16 cm long, often with a gland just below the junction of some of the pairs of leaflets; leaflets 4-6 pairs, (3,5)4-7,5 (12) x 2-4,2(6) cm, narrowly ovate or rarely narrowly elliptic, rounded or slightly cordate basally, tomentose on both surfaces when young, the upper becoming glabrous, the lower remaining ± densely pubescent at maturity, especially on the midrib and veins. Stipules linear, up to 1 cm long, deciduous. Flowers yellow, in heads up to 1,8 cm in diameter, on axillary peduncles 2-3,5 cm long; pedicels up to 1,5 mm long, densely appressed-pubescent with the hairs longer and denser than on the calyx; interfloral bracts spathulate, 2-3 mm long. Calyx tubular-campanulate, up to 4,5 mm long, lobes up to 1,5 mm long, appressed-pubes­cent. Corolla up to 6 mm long, lobes up to 2,25 X 0,75 mm, appressed-pubescent. Stamens 10, filaments fr
Habitat
As no flowering specimens of X. torreana have been collected in our area, the description of the flowers has been drawn up from material collected outside of our area. More material of X. torreana, particularly flowering material, is required from our area.
Use
Xylia torreana Brenan in Kew Bull. 12 : 359 (1958); Von Breitenbach, Indig. Trees S.Afr. 2 : 313 (1965); Gomes e Sousa, Dendrol. Mocamb. 1 : 228, t.33 (1966); Brenan & Brummitt in F.Z. 3,1 : 35, t.7 (1970); Van Wyk, Trees Kruger Nat. Park 1 : 178 (1972); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S.Afr. 2 : 823 (1973). Type: Mozambique, Maringua's village, 10 km N. of River Save, Chase 2244 (K, nolo.!; BM!; LISC; SRGH). Xylia africana sensu Torre in Mendonfa, Contr. Conhec. Fl. Mocamb. 2 : 93 (1954).
Range
Found in Rhodesia, Malawi, Mozambique and the north-eastern Transvaal. Occurs in deciduous woodland and, in our area, in sandveld.

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