CYNOMETRA brachyrrhachis 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 brachyrrhachis Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in E.J. 53: 458 (1915); L.T.A.: 758 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 101 (1949); J. Léon. in B.J.B.B. 21: 398 (1951). Types: Tanganyika, Lushoto District, Zimmermann 2564 & Grote 3583 (both B, syn. †)
Information
Tree; young branchlets shortly pubescent. Leaves: petiole 2–3 mm. long; rhachis with petiole 0.8–1.5 cm. long, pubescent or puberulous; leaflets 4, opposite, or sometimes subopposite or alternate, sessile, obliquely lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or ovate, ± falcate-curved, 1–5 cm. long, 0.5–2 cm. wide, usually gradually acuminate and acute at apex, rarely shortly narrowed and obtuse, glabrous or subglabrous. Racemes terminal, short; axis ± 4–10 mm. long, puberulous; pedicels 4–7 mm. long (including hypanthium), sparsely puberulous to subglabrous. Sepals 4. Petals unknown. Pods unknown.
Range
DISTR. T3 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
HAB. Uncertain, but presumably lowland rain-forest
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Amani, Bomole road, 1909, Zimmermann 2564 & Mar. 1912, Grote 3583
Notes
This species may well not be correctly placed generically. It might well, for instance, be a Scorodophloeus.
CYNOMETRA brachyrrhachis Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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