MILLETTIA usaramensis Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
MILLETTIA usaramensis Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1895). Fig. 213.
Sophora somalensis Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Licchitore”, Senni 551 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrub or small tree. Leaves up to 16 cm long; leaflets 7–17, broadly ovate to lanceolate, up to 7 x 3.5 cm, somewhat acuminate. Pseudoracemes up to 16 cm long; pedicels up to 13 mm long. Calyx-tube 3 mm long; lobes broadly triangular, up to 0.5 mm long. Corolla 11–14 mm long, purplish-blue; standard thinly white silky outside. Style glabrous, ± 8 mm long. Pod up to 11 x 1.1 cm, densely silky pubescent, the tip glabrous and downcurved, up to 5-seeded. Seeds nearly black, ± 6 mm in diam.
Range
S3 subsp. australis Gillett in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Friis, Vollesen & Abdisalam Sheikh Hassan 4998.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
N Mozambique
MILLETTIA usaramensis Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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