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MARKHAMIA Hildebrandtii Sprague [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 Hildebrandtii Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2800, fig. 9. MARKHAMIA lutea K. Schum. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 363, partly (as regards the East African localities), not of K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 242. Dolichandrone Hildebrandtii Baker [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 31.
Information
A shrub or small tree; branchlets finely lepidote. Leaves 6–10 in. long; leaflets 7–9, shortly stalked, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtusely acuminate, cuneate at the base, 2–4 in. long, 3/4–2 in. broad, entire, minutely lepidote. Panicle terminal or terminal and axillary; rhachis lenticellate, densely lepidote, pilose above. Pedicels 2 lin. long. Calyx 9–11 1/2 lin. long, shortly uncinate, split down to within 2–4 lin. from the base, membranous, finely and densely lepidote, puberulous. Corolla yellow; tube campanulate-funnel-shaped, 16–20 lin. long; basal cylindric portion 5–5 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. in diam.; lobes 7–10 lin. long, sparsely and inconspicuously glandular. Stamens inserted 5 1/2–7 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; filaments slightly thickened and pilose at the base; anther-lobes 1–1 1/4 lin. long. Disc annular, 1/2– 3/4 lin. high. Ovary 2 1/4–2 1/2 lin. long, minutely and densely lepidote; stigma-lobes elliptic or ovate, entire or minutely serrulate.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2732! Kikuyu; Nairobi, Kässner, 967!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara: Derema, Scheffler, 142!
MARKHAMIA Hildebrandtii Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE]
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