PARACALYX microphyllus (Chiov.) Ali [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
PARACALYX microphyllus (Chiov.) Ali [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1968);. type: N3, between “Dhur” and “Hossa Uein”, Stefanini & Puccioni 690 (FT holo.).
Cylista microphylla Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1929);. type: N3, between “Dhur” and “Hossa Uein”, Stefanini & Puccioni 690 (FT holo.).
Information
Stems trailing, to c. 1 m long, densely ± appressed pubescent. Leaflets broadly ovate or obovate, up to 20 x 18 mm but often much smaller, ± obtuse, shortly pubescent on both sides. Bracts ovate-acuminate, c. 4 x 2 mm, soon falling. Calyx up to 18 mm long, shortly pubescent and gland-dotted, lowest lobe almost twice as long as the upper. Standard yellowish, c. 13 mm long, pubescent. Pod c. 8 x 4 mm, with glands and dense pubescence.
Range
N3; C1 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
up to c. 200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Abdi Dahir 6703; Wieland 4473.
Notes
This species was placed in a separate subgenus by Chiovenda (1929), on account of its ciliate anthers. However, ciliate anthers are found also in P. nogalensis and perhaps in other species as well.
PARACALYX microphyllus (Chiov.) Ali [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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