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OLIGOSTEMON pictus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
OLIGOSTEMON pictus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 305. t. 39.
Duparquetia orchidacea Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Adans. vi. 190. t. 4.
Information
A shrub of 6–20 ft.; extremities and inflorescence at first rusty-puberulous. Leaflets usually 7–9, thinly coriaceous, obovate-elliptical or the lower broadly elliptical, rounded and shortly apiculate above, cuneate, or slightly rounded at the base, lateral nerves few, subremote, connected by somewhat transverse reticulation, 4–6 in. long, 2 1/2–3 in. broad, on petiolules of 1/4– 1/3 in. Racemes erect densely many-flowered, at length 1/2–1 ft. long. Bracts minute, ovate-deltoid, deciduous. Pedicels ascending or patent, puberulous 1/2–1 in. long, articulated a little above the base with a pair of minute bracteoles below the joint. Inner larger sepal 1–1 1/4 in. long. Anthers 1/2 in. long. Mature legumes not seen; the most advanced in the Kew herbarium are 5 in. long, and nearly 1/2 in. broad above.
Range
Not known from elsewhere.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Cameroons river, Mann!Gaboon Upper Guinea Duparquet, Griffon du Bellay.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
OLIGOSTEMON pictus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 305. t. 39.
Duparquetia orchidacea Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Adans. vi. 190. t. 4.
Information
A shrub of 6–20 ft.; extremities and inflorescence at first rusty-puberulous. Leaflets usually 7–9, thinly coriaceous, obovate-elliptical or the lower broadly elliptical, rounded and shortly apiculate above, cuneate, or slightly rounded at the base, lateral nerves few, subremote, connected by somewhat transverse reticulation, 4–6 in. long, 2 1/2–3 in. broad, on petiolules of 1/4– 1/3 in. Racemes erect densely many-flowered, at length 1/2–1 ft. long. Bracts minute, ovate-deltoid, deciduous. Pedicels ascending or patent, puberulous 1/2–1 in. long, articulated a little above the base with a pair of minute bracteoles below the joint. Inner larger sepal 1–1 1/4 in. long. Anthers 1/2 in. long. Mature legumes not seen; the most advanced in the Kew herbarium are 5 in. long, and nearly 1/2 in. broad above.
Range
Not known from elsewhere.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Cameroons river, Mann!Gaboon Upper Guinea Duparquet, Griffon du Bellay.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
OLIGOSTEMON pictus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 305. t. 39.
Duparquetia orchidacea Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Adans. vi. 190. t. 4.
Information
A shrub of 6–20 ft.; extremities and inflorescence at first rusty-puberulous. Leaflets usually 7–9, thinly coriaceous, obovate-elliptical or the lower broadly elliptical, rounded and shortly apiculate above, cuneate, or slightly rounded at the base, lateral nerves few, subremote, connected by somewhat transverse reticulation, 4–6 in. long, 2 1/2–3 in. broad, on petiolules of 1/4– 1/3 in. Racemes erect densely many-flowered, at length 1/2–1 ft. long. Bracts minute, ovate-deltoid, deciduous. Pedicels ascending or patent, puberulous 1/2–1 in. long, articulated a little above the base with a pair of minute bracteoles below the joint. Inner larger sepal 1–1 1/4 in. long. Anthers 1/2 in. long. Mature legumes not seen; the most advanced in the Kew herbarium are 5 in. long, and nearly 1/2 in. broad above.
Range
Not known from elsewhere.
Distribution
Upper Guinea Cameroons river, Mann!Gaboon Upper Guinea Duparquet, Griffon du Bellay.
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