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BRACHYSTEGIA tamarindoides Welw. [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
BRACHYSTEGIA tamarindoides Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 312.
Information
Much branched tree of 15–40 ft. in height; extremities pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaflets in 10–18 pairs, at intervals of 2–3 lines, sessile, coriaceous, obliquely oblong-lanceolate obtuse, the somewhat eccentric midrib often terminating in a minute mucro, base unequal, shortly pubescent or tomentose-pubescent or at length subglabrate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Flowers subsessile, in short, dense, ferruginous racemes or glomerules in the upper axils, or more or less confluent in terminal oblong panicles of 1 or 2 in. scarcely overtopping the leaves. Bracts ovate concave 1–1 1/2 lines long. Involucral bracteoles rotundate, concave, about 2 lines long. Perianth reduced to about 5 obovate or oblong-ciliate scales, 1 line or less in length. Stamens 10, glabrous, filaments connate in a very short ring at base. Ovary subsessile, densely villous; ovules about 7. Legume oblong or from lanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong at right angles to the short stout gynophore of 1/6– 1/4 in., the ventral suture dilated and terminating in the more or less persistent, rigid, subulate, straight base of the style; valves thickly coriaceous, at length smooth; 3–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch!
Notes
To the same or a nearly allied species must be referred fruiting specimens collected by Dr. Welwitsch in Pungo Andongo (and a leaf only by Speke and Grant on their way to the Victoria Nyanza), of which the leaves are 1/2–1 ft. in length, and the leaflets 1 1/4–2 in. The legume does not materially differ.
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
BRACHYSTEGIA tamarindoides Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 312.
Information
Much branched tree of 15–40 ft. in height; extremities pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaflets in 10–18 pairs, at intervals of 2–3 lines, sessile, coriaceous, obliquely oblong-lanceolate obtuse, the somewhat eccentric midrib often terminating in a minute mucro, base unequal, shortly pubescent or tomentose-pubescent or at length subglabrate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Flowers subsessile, in short, dense, ferruginous racemes or glomerules in the upper axils, or more or less confluent in terminal oblong panicles of 1 or 2 in. scarcely overtopping the leaves. Bracts ovate concave 1–1 1/2 lines long. Involucral bracteoles rotundate, concave, about 2 lines long. Perianth reduced to about 5 obovate or oblong-ciliate scales, 1 line or less in length. Stamens 10, glabrous, filaments connate in a very short ring at base. Ovary subsessile, densely villous; ovules about 7. Legume oblong or from lanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong at right angles to the short stout gynophore of 1/6– 1/4 in., the ventral suture dilated and terminating in the more or less persistent, rigid, subulate, straight base of the style; valves thickly coriaceous, at length smooth; 3–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch!
Notes
To the same or a nearly allied species must be referred fruiting specimens collected by Dr. Welwitsch in Pungo Andongo (and a leaf only by Speke and Grant on their way to the Victoria Nyanza), of which the leaves are 1/2–1 ft. in length, and the leaflets 1 1/4–2 in. The legume does not materially differ.
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
BRACHYSTEGIA tamarindoides Welw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 312.
Information
Much branched tree of 15–40 ft. in height; extremities pubescent, at length glabrous. Leaflets in 10–18 pairs, at intervals of 2–3 lines, sessile, coriaceous, obliquely oblong-lanceolate obtuse, the somewhat eccentric midrib often terminating in a minute mucro, base unequal, shortly pubescent or tomentose-pubescent or at length subglabrate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Flowers subsessile, in short, dense, ferruginous racemes or glomerules in the upper axils, or more or less confluent in terminal oblong panicles of 1 or 2 in. scarcely overtopping the leaves. Bracts ovate concave 1–1 1/2 lines long. Involucral bracteoles rotundate, concave, about 2 lines long. Perianth reduced to about 5 obovate or oblong-ciliate scales, 1 line or less in length. Stamens 10, glabrous, filaments connate in a very short ring at base. Ovary subsessile, densely villous; ovules about 7. Legume oblong or from lanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong at right angles to the short stout gynophore of 1/6– 1/4 in., the ventral suture dilated and terminating in the more or less persistent, rigid, subulate, straight base of the style; valves thickly coriaceous, at length smooth; 3–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch!
Notes
To the same or a nearly allied species must be referred fruiting specimens collected by Dr. Welwitsch in Pungo Andongo (and a leaf only by Speke and Grant on their way to the Victoria Nyanza), of which the leaves are 1/2–1 ft. in length, and the leaflets 1 1/4–2 in. The legume does not materially differ.
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