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Leptoderris fasciculata

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Type of Lonchocarpus fasciculatus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Isotype of Lonchocarpus fasciculatus Bentham [family FABACEAE]
Isotype of Leptoderris ferruginea De Wild. var. letestui Pellegr. [family FABACEAE]
Isotype of Leptoderris fasciculata (Benth.) Dunn var. letestui Pellegr. [family FABACEAE]
Holotype of Leptoderris ferruginea De Wild. [family FABACEAE]
Isotype of Leptoderris fasciculata (Benth.) Dunn var. letestui Pellegr. [family FABACEAE]
Type of Lonchocarpus fasciculatus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Type of Lonchocarpus fasciculatus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Type of Leptoderris rutshuruensis Hauman [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Leptoderris fasciculata (Benth.) Dunn [family FABACEAE]
Type of Leptoderris rutshuruensis Hauman [family FABACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Leptoderris ferruginea De Wild. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Leptoderris fasciculata (Benth.) Dunn [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Leptoderris ferruginea
  • Lonchocarpus fasciculatus
  • Leptoderris fasciculata
  • Leptoderris rutshuruensis
Common name
  • bu hoyna (JB) fu futal (JB) fu gõnd (JB) u moka (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • topiguirá (D’Orey & Liberato) (GUINEA-BISSAU, NALU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • kinduduf (JB; K&A) kindudul (JB) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • fugalaf (K&A) fugon (K&A) fuyal (K&A) fuyoyoro (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA (Fogny)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for LEPTODERRIS fasciculata (Benth.) Dunn [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
LEPTODERRIS fasciculata (Benth.) Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in K.B. 1910: 390 (1910); L.T.A.: 559 (1929); T.T.C.L.: 430 (1949); Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 521 (1958), pro parte. Type: Guinée, Fouta Djalon, Heudelot 693 (K, holo.!)
Lonchocarpus fasciculatus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in J.L.S. 4, Suppl.: 100 (1860); Bak. in F.T.A. 2: 243 (1871); Taub. in P.O.A. C: 218 (1895) [genus queried by original author]
Lonchocarpus sp. aff. fasciculatus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], sensu Harms in Z.A.E.: 263 (1911), based on Mildbraed 2284 (K !) from Beni in the Kivu Province of the Congo
Leptoderris ferruginea De Wild [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in B.J.B.B. 7: 231 (1920); Hauman in F.C.B. 6: 43 (1954). Type: Congo, Bas-Congo, Odden in Gillet (BR, holo.)
Leptoderris rutshuruensis Hauman [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in B.J.B.B. 24: 226 (1954) & in F.C.B. 6: 38 (1954). Type: Congo Republic, Kivu Province, Rutshuru, Ghesquière 3852 (BR, holo., K, iso. !)
Lonchocarpus sp. A [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], sensu Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 523 (1958)
Information
Woody climber, shrub or tree with pendent liane-like branches, up to 15 m. tall. Branchlets brown pubescent to tomentellous, soon glabrescent. Leaves 20–47 cm. long; stipules subulate to ovate-acuminate, 3–4 mm. long, caducous; rhachis prolonged ± 2–3.5 cm. beyond the distal pair of leaflets, glabrous to thinly pubescent; stipels 1–2.5 mm. long; lateral leaflets in (1–)2–4 pairs, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 8–18 cm. long, 3.5–8 cm. wide, obtuse or acuminate, narrowed to the shortly rounded or cordate base, asymmetric, chartaceous, glabrous above except sometimes for a few hairs on the nerves, subglabrous to appressed puberulous beneath (indumentum conspicuous only with a lens); primary lateral nerves 4–6(–7) on either side, prominent; venation lax, fine and slightly raised. Panicles terminal and axillary (sometimes the latter reduced and few-flowered), up to 18–60 cm. long, with usually numerous ascending branches; axes brown pubescent to velutinous; fascicles of mature panicles not very crowded; bracts subtending fascicles and flowers linear-lanceolate to ovate, 1–2 mm. long. Calyx 2.5–4 mm. long, brownish tomentellous. Corolla 7–9(–12) mm. long, cream or white, sometimes with small scattered hairs mostly on the keel and wings; wings as long as the keel. Fruit linear-oblong or oblong, not winged, rounded at the ends, subsessile, 6–10 cm. long, 1.8–3 cm. wide, papery, densely appressed pubescent, ultimately glabrescent, laxly venose, 1–2-seeded.
Range
DISTR. U2; ? T1 Congo and Central African Republic westwards in forest areas to Senegal
Altitude range
1400 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Ankole District Lake Lutoto, 4 Jan. 1953, Osmaston 2750 !
Notes
The record of what is probably this species in the Bukoba area of Tanganyika, given in P.O.A. C: 218 (1895), has not been verified by any available specimens, but the species should certainly be sought for again in this area; the record given by Taubert in E.J. 23: 193 (1896) for the Uluguru Mts. is more improbable. J. G. Baker in F.T.A. 2: 243 (1871) described an immature fruit (presumably based on an Afzelius specimen from Sierra Leone) simply as linear, densely ferrugineous-silky. The first detailed description of fruits purporting to belong to L. fasciculata was made by Pellegrin, Leg. Gabon: 209 (1948), where he states that they have a distinct wing. On the basis of this Hauman (l.c.) regarded L. ferruginea by not having a winged fruit as specifically distinct. A re-examination of material ascribed to L. fasciculata in West Africa shows that two species are involved and that L. fasciculata in the strict sense does in fact have unwinged fruits identical to those ascribed to L. ferruginea.

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