Pseudoprosopis euryphylla Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 1, (1970) Author: J.P.M. Brenan
Names
Pseudoprosopis euryphylla Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 49: 419 (1913). — Bak. f., Legum. Trop. Afr. 3: 806 (1930). — Brenan, T.T.C.L.: 347 (1949); F.T.E.A. Legum.-Mimos.: 28 (1959). — Torre in Mendonça, Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 90 (1954). TAB. 6 fig. A. Types from Tanzania.
Information
Scandent shrub or small tree 3-6 m. high; young branchlets, petioles and rhachides ± puberulous; older branchlets longitudinally striate. Leaves: petiole 0·5-2·9 cm. long; rhachis 1·7-7 cm. long; pinnae opposite, 2-4 pairs; leaflets 4-9 pairs, (0·5)0·7-2·1 x (0·3)0·6-1·5 cm., rhombic-ovate or -obovate, rounded or slightly emarginate and mucronate at the apex. Flowers white. Calyx 0·75-1 mm. long, densely and shortly pubescent. Petals 2·5-3 mm. long, densely puberulous outside. Stamen-filaments 4-5·5 mm. long. Ovary densely hairy. Pods 7-11 x 1·3-1·8 cm., attenuate below, blackish when dry, obliquely ± longitudinally striate. Seeds c. 7-8 x 5-7 mm.
Habitat
In evergreen thickets
Altitude range
c. 250 m.
250
250
Distribution
Mozambique N mouth of R. Messalo (Msalu), fl. i.1912, Allen 161 (K); Nacala, near Fernão Veloso, fl. bud & young fr., 15.x.1948, Barbosa 2415 (BM; K; LISC; LMJ).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
Pseudoprosopis euryphylla Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE]
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