CYNOMETRA ulugurensis 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 ulugurensis Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in E.J. 53: 461 (1915); L.T.A.: 758 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 101 (1949); J. Léon. in B.J.B.B. 21: 399 (1951). Type: Tanganyika, Morogoro District, Rupprecht in Holtz 3100 (B, holo. †)
Information
Tall tree; branchlets glabrous, or minutely puberulous when young. Leaves: rhachis, together with the 1–2.5 mm. long petiole, 0.8–1.5 cm. long, puberulous; leaflets 4, sessile, obliquely lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or ovate, 0.8–4 cm. long, 0.5–1.5 cm. wide, acute, or more usually ± gradually and often acutely acuminate at apex, glabrous or nearly so. Panicles 5–8 cm. long, composed of 1–3 cm. long racemes; axes and pedicels pubescent, the latter 3–5 mm. long. Sepals 4, 2–3 mm. long, hairy. Petals 5, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 3 mm. long. Pods unknown.
Range
DISTR. T6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
± 660 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Kimboza Forest Reserve, Feb. 1913, Rupprecht in Holtz 3100
CYNOMETRA ulugurensis Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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