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MARKHAMIA zanzibarica K. Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
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 IV, Part 2, page 516, (1905) Author: (By T. A. Sprague).
Names
MARKHAMIA zanzibarica K. Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Glied. Veg. Usambara, 34, 36. —Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 242.
MARKHAMIA sansibarica K. Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Glied. Veg. Usambara, 16; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 363; Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 332.
Spathodea tenuifolia Bojer [family BIGNONIACEAE], Hort. Maurit. 219.
Spathodea zanzibarica Bojer ex DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Prodr. ix. 208; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 191.
Muenteria zanzibarica Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1870, 339.
Dolichandrone latifolia Baker [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 31.
Information
A shrub or small tree, 10 ft. high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 5–13 in. long; leaflets 7, elliptic-oblong, long acuminate, mucronulate, 1 1/2–6 in. long, 3/4–2 1/2 in. broad, entire or serrulate, especially towards the apex, coriaceous, brownish when dry, glabrous above, minutely lepidote below. Racemes terminal and lateral, lepidote; rhachis conspicuously lenticellate. Peduncles 4 lin. long; pedicels 2–4 lin. long. Calyx 6–7 lin. long, shortly uncinate, split down to within 1–4 lin. from the base, lepidote, sometimes puberulous. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 11–12 lin. long, yellowish with purple spots; basal cylindric portion 3–4 1/2 lin. long, 1–1 1/4 lin. in diam.; lobes brownish-purple, 4–5 lin. long. Stamens inserted 4–5 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anther-lobes 1 lin. long, acute at the base. Disc annular, 2/3 lin. high. Ovary 2–2 1/3 lin. long, densely lepidote. Capsule falcate, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 5–6 lin. broad, lenticellate; seeds 1–1 2/3 in. long, 2 1/3–2 1/2 lin. broad; nucleus 5–6 lin. long.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Nyika Country, near Mombasa, Wakefield!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Kokotoni, Hildebrandt, 977!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Derema, Scheffler, 126! Masheua, Holst, 8795! Tanga, Heinsen, 113! Magila, Kirk! Usaramo; Dar-es-Salaam, Kirk!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mozambique, Forbes, 15!
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 IV, Part 2, page 516, (1905) Author: (By T. A. Sprague).
Names
MARKHAMIA zanzibarica K. Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Glied. Veg. Usambara, 34, 36. —Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 242.
MARKHAMIA sansibarica K. Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Glied. Veg. Usambara, 16; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 363; Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 332.
Spathodea tenuifolia Bojer [family BIGNONIACEAE], Hort. Maurit. 219.
Spathodea zanzibarica Bojer ex DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Prodr. ix. 208; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 191.
Muenteria zanzibarica Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1870, 339.
Dolichandrone latifolia Baker [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 31.
Information
A shrub or small tree, 10 ft. high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 5–13 in. long; leaflets 7, elliptic-oblong, long acuminate, mucronulate, 1 1/2–6 in. long, 3/4–2 1/2 in. broad, entire or serrulate, especially towards the apex, coriaceous, brownish when dry, glabrous above, minutely lepidote below. Racemes terminal and lateral, lepidote; rhachis conspicuously lenticellate. Peduncles 4 lin. long; pedicels 2–4 lin. long. Calyx 6–7 lin. long, shortly uncinate, split down to within 1–4 lin. from the base, lepidote, sometimes puberulous. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 11–12 lin. long, yellowish with purple spots; basal cylindric portion 3–4 1/2 lin. long, 1–1 1/4 lin. in diam.; lobes brownish-purple, 4–5 lin. long. Stamens inserted 4–5 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anther-lobes 1 lin. long, acute at the base. Disc annular, 2/3 lin. high. Ovary 2–2 1/3 lin. long, densely lepidote. Capsule falcate, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 5–6 lin. broad, lenticellate; seeds 1–1 2/3 in. long, 2 1/3–2 1/2 lin. broad; nucleus 5–6 lin. long.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Nyika Country, near Mombasa, Wakefield!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Kokotoni, Hildebrandt, 977!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Derema, Scheffler, 126! Masheua, Holst, 8795! Tanga, Heinsen, 113! Magila, Kirk! Usaramo; Dar-es-Salaam, Kirk!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mozambique, Forbes, 15!
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 IV, Part 2, page 516, (1905) Author: (By T. A. Sprague).
Names
MARKHAMIA zanzibarica K. Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Glied. Veg. Usambara, 34, 36. —Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 242.
MARKHAMIA sansibarica K. Schum. ex Engl. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Glied. Veg. Usambara, 16; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 363; Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 332.
Spathodea tenuifolia Bojer [family BIGNONIACEAE], Hort. Maurit. 219.
Spathodea zanzibarica Bojer ex DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Prodr. ix. 208; Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 191.
Muenteria zanzibarica Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1870, 339.
Dolichandrone latifolia Baker [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 31.
Information
A shrub or small tree, 10 ft. high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 5–13 in. long; leaflets 7, elliptic-oblong, long acuminate, mucronulate, 1 1/2–6 in. long, 3/4–2 1/2 in. broad, entire or serrulate, especially towards the apex, coriaceous, brownish when dry, glabrous above, minutely lepidote below. Racemes terminal and lateral, lepidote; rhachis conspicuously lenticellate. Peduncles 4 lin. long; pedicels 2–4 lin. long. Calyx 6–7 lin. long, shortly uncinate, split down to within 1–4 lin. from the base, lepidote, sometimes puberulous. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 11–12 lin. long, yellowish with purple spots; basal cylindric portion 3–4 1/2 lin. long, 1–1 1/4 lin. in diam.; lobes brownish-purple, 4–5 lin. long. Stamens inserted 4–5 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anther-lobes 1 lin. long, acute at the base. Disc annular, 2/3 lin. high. Ovary 2–2 1/3 lin. long, densely lepidote. Capsule falcate, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 5–6 lin. broad, lenticellate; seeds 1–1 2/3 in. long, 2 1/3–2 1/2 lin. broad; nucleus 5–6 lin. long.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Nyika Country, near Mombasa, Wakefield!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Kokotoni, Hildebrandt, 977!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Derema, Scheffler, 126! Masheua, Holst, 8795! Tanga, Heinsen, 113! Magila, Kirk! Usaramo; Dar-es-Salaam, Kirk!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mozambique, Forbes, 15!
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