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Cynometra filifera

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Name

Identification
Cynometra filifera Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cynometra unrecorded
  • Cynometra filifera

Flora

Entry for CYNOMETRA filifera Harms [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
CYNOMETRA filifera Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in N.B.G.B. 13: 414 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 100 (1949); J. Léon. in B.J.B.B. 21: 398 (1951). Type: Tanganyika, Lindi District, Schlieben 5795 (B, holo. †, BM, BR, iso.!)
Information
Tree up to about 3–5 m. high; young branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves sessile or subsessile; stipules linear-filiform, up to 2 cm. or more long; rhachis pubescent, not winged, 3–6 cm. long; leaflets 8–12, alternate or opposite, ovate or oblong, 1–3 cm. long, 0.8–1.5 cm. wide, ± obtuse or obtusely subacuminate at apex, not emarginate, glabrous. Peduncle together with axis of flowering raceme 3–6 cm. long, hairy; pedicels 1–1.4 cm. long, ± hairy in lower part, jointed a little below flower. Flowers white, red outside. Sepals 4, 4–5 mm. long. Petals 4, obovate-oblong or oblong, 4 mm. long. Pods unknown.
Range
DISTR. T8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
Uncertain, said to occur in “bush-land” at about 100 m. by Schlieben, and in coastal thicket on brown loam or limestone by Gillman
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Lindi District 20 km. from Lindi, Mlinguru, 26 Dec. 1934, Schlieben 5795 ! & Lindi Creek, Gillman 1164 !
Notes
The generic position is doubtful. More material, including fruits, is desired.The racemose inflorescences, strobiliform when young, and the definitely alternate arrangement of at least most of the leaflets combine to make C. filifera very anomalous among the other East African species of Cynometra. The petiolules are not twisted, however, and the basal parts of the pedicels persist after the flowers have fallen, as in the other Cynometra species.

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