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Bauhinia thonningii

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Identification
Piliostigma thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redhead [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Bauhinia thonningii Schumach. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Bauhinia ferruginea Not on sheet [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Bauhinia reticulata DC. ex Walp. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by J.M.C. Lange, 1865
Related name
  • Bauhinia thonningii
  • Bauhinia pyrrhocarpa
  • Bauhinia abyssinica
  • Bauhinia reticulata
  • Bauhinia ferruginea
  • Piliostigma thonningii
  • Piliostigma pyrrhocarpa
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  • Piliostigma pyrrhocarpum
  • Bauhinia inermis
Common name
  • a-pès (JB) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • babèl (JB) (SENEGAL, ‘ACOU’), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bu falat (JMD; K&A) bu falatabu (K&A) ka falat (K&A) kafalataku (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA (Fogny)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bakéhi (JB) barde (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bu rékatodi (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • camel’s foot (Etkin)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ga-pès (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • semellier (from the fruit semelle: the sole of a shoe or boot, Berhaut); pied de chameau (Bailleul)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • pu unké (JB) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for PILIOSTIGMA thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
PILIOSTIGMA thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 35: 2, t. 3460 (1947); I.T.U., ed. 2: 67, fig. 16 (1952); Torre & Hillcoat in C.F.A. 2: 199 (1956); Roti-Michelozzi in Webbia 13: 174 (1957); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 444 (1958); K.T.S.: 107, fig. 20 (1961); F.F.N.R.: 126, fig. 20/N (1962). Type: Ghana, Aquapim, Thonning (C, holo. !)
Bauhinia thonningii Schumach. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Schumach. & Thonn., Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 203 (1827); L.T.A.: 657 (1930); T.S.K.: 62 (1936); I.T.U.: 30, fig. 11 (1940); T.T.C.L.: 88 (1949); U.O.P.Z.: 142 (1949); Wilczek in F.C.B. 3: 275, t. 22 (1952)
Bauhinia reticulata [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], [sensu P.O.A. C: 200 (1895), non DC]
Information
Tree (2–)3–10 m. high, occasionally shrubby. Bark rough, dark brown to grey or black. Branchlets rusty-tomentellous or shortly rusty-tomentose when young. Leaves mostly 5–17 cm. long and 6–19 cm. wide, bilobed about one-eighth to one-third way down, densely reticulate and rusty-puberulous or -pubescent beneath. Panicles usually alternately leaf-opposed and axillary along branches, the ♂ ones 5–19 cm. long, the ♀ 2–7 cm. long. Flowers white to pinkish. Calyx rusty-tomentose or -tomentellous, 1.3–2.3 cm. long. Petals obovate, 1.4–2.6 cm. long, rugose or bullate, hairy on basal claw and outside of limb. Pods stipitate, woody, oblong or linear-oblong, mostly 13–26(–37) cm. long and 3–6.3 cm. wide. Seeds obovoid to ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, dark brown to blackish, ± 7–9 mm. long, 5–7 mm. wide and 3–4 mm. thick. Fig. 46.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K ?1, 2–7; T1–8; P widespread in tropical Africa from Senegal to the Sudan Republic and southwards to South West Africa and the Transvaal
Altitude range
near sea-level to 1830 m.
Distribution
KENYA Elgon, SE. slopes, 4 May 1953, Padwa 29 !KENYA Uasin Gishu District Kipkarren, Mar. 1932, Brodhurst Hill 718!KENYA S. Nyeri/Embu District Sagana-Embu, June 1941, Bally 1487 !TANGANYIKA Moshi, May 1928, Haarer 1436!TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Kipili, 31 Jan. 1950, Bullock 2366!TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Matombo, 11 Apr. 1935, E. M. Bruce 1017!UGANDA W. Nile District Koboko, May 1938, Hazel 481 !UGANDA Teso District Serere, May-June 1932, Chandler 699!UGANDA Mengo District Bugerere, Busana, May 1932, Eggeling 422 in F.H. 656 !ZANZIBAR Pemba I., Miulani, 14 Feb. 1929, Greenway 1444!

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