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NEWTONIA buchananii (Baker) Gilb. & Bout. [family ]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
NEWTONIA buchananii (Baker) Gilb. & Bout. [family ], in F.C.B. 3: 213 (1952); Consp. Fl. Angol. 2: 261 (1956). Type: Nyasaland, Buchanan 192 (K, holo.!)
Information
Tree 10–40 m. high, somewhat buttressed at base, with smooth bark. Branchlets densely pubescent when young. Leaf-rhachis with a stipitate gland between each pinna-pair; no glands between leaflet-pairs; pinnae (7–)12–23 pairs; leaflets (24–)38–67 pairs, linear, ± falcate, 2–6(–9) mm. long, 0.5–1.5(–2) mm. wide; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Flowers yellowish, in spikes 3.5–19 cm. long. Anthers with an apical gland that soon falls off. Pod 10–32 cm. long, 1.3–2.5 cm. wide. Seeds 4.1–7.5 cm. long, 0.9–2.1 cm. wide. Fig. 6, p. 24.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; K4, 7; T2–4, 6, 8
Altitude range
600–2130 m.
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall/Kiambu District Thika, by Chania R., 25 June 1947, Bogdan 781!KENYA Nairobi, French Mission, Dec. 1940, Bally 1384!;KENYA Teita District Taveta, 22 Jan. 1936, Greenway 4477!TANGANYIKA Moshi, Nov. 1935, R. M. Davies 1134! & 10 Nov. 1949, Wigg in F.H. 3024!;TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Amani, 11 Feb. 1932, Toms H4/32/1!;TANGANYIKA Songea District top of escarpment leading to Mbamba Bay, 25 May 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 10445!UGANDA Ankole District Ruizi R., 18 Oct. 1950, Jarrett 386!;UGANDA Masaka District Bugala Is., Sozi Point, Nov. 1931, Eggeling 256!;UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, Bumpenje Hill, 1 Mar. 1950, Dawkins 531!
Distribution (external)
; Portuguese East Africa
Nyasaland
Northern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
Belgian Congo
Angola
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
NEWTONIA buchananii (Baker) Gilb. & Bout. [family ], in F.C.B. 3: 213 (1952); Consp. Fl. Angol. 2: 261 (1956). Type: Nyasaland, Buchanan 192 (K, holo.!)
Information
Tree 10–40 m. high, somewhat buttressed at base, with smooth bark. Branchlets densely pubescent when young. Leaf-rhachis with a stipitate gland between each pinna-pair; no glands between leaflet-pairs; pinnae (7–)12–23 pairs; leaflets (24–)38–67 pairs, linear, ± falcate, 2–6(–9) mm. long, 0.5–1.5(–2) mm. wide; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Flowers yellowish, in spikes 3.5–19 cm. long. Anthers with an apical gland that soon falls off. Pod 10–32 cm. long, 1.3–2.5 cm. wide. Seeds 4.1–7.5 cm. long, 0.9–2.1 cm. wide. Fig. 6, p. 24.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; K4, 7; T2–4, 6, 8
Altitude range
600–2130 m.
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall/Kiambu District Thika, by Chania R., 25 June 1947, Bogdan 781!KENYA Nairobi, French Mission, Dec. 1940, Bally 1384!;KENYA Teita District Taveta, 22 Jan. 1936, Greenway 4477!TANGANYIKA Moshi, Nov. 1935, R. M. Davies 1134! & 10 Nov. 1949, Wigg in F.H. 3024!;TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Amani, 11 Feb. 1932, Toms H4/32/1!;TANGANYIKA Songea District top of escarpment leading to Mbamba Bay, 25 May 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 10445!UGANDA Ankole District Ruizi R., 18 Oct. 1950, Jarrett 386!;UGANDA Masaka District Bugala Is., Sozi Point, Nov. 1931, Eggeling 256!;UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, Bumpenje Hill, 1 Mar. 1950, Dawkins 531!
Distribution (external)
; Portuguese East Africa
Nyasaland
Northern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
Belgian Congo
Angola
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1959) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
NEWTONIA buchananii (Baker) Gilb. & Bout. [family ], in F.C.B. 3: 213 (1952); Consp. Fl. Angol. 2: 261 (1956). Type: Nyasaland, Buchanan 192 (K, holo.!)
Information
Tree 10–40 m. high, somewhat buttressed at base, with smooth bark. Branchlets densely pubescent when young. Leaf-rhachis with a stipitate gland between each pinna-pair; no glands between leaflet-pairs; pinnae (7–)12–23 pairs; leaflets (24–)38–67 pairs, linear, ± falcate, 2–6(–9) mm. long, 0.5–1.5(–2) mm. wide; lateral nerves invisible beneath. Flowers yellowish, in spikes 3.5–19 cm. long. Anthers with an apical gland that soon falls off. Pod 10–32 cm. long, 1.3–2.5 cm. wide. Seeds 4.1–7.5 cm. long, 0.9–2.1 cm. wide. Fig. 6, p. 24.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; K4, 7; T2–4, 6, 8
Altitude range
600–2130 m.
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall/Kiambu District Thika, by Chania R., 25 June 1947, Bogdan 781!KENYA Nairobi, French Mission, Dec. 1940, Bally 1384!;KENYA Teita District Taveta, 22 Jan. 1936, Greenway 4477!TANGANYIKA Moshi, Nov. 1935, R. M. Davies 1134! & 10 Nov. 1949, Wigg in F.H. 3024!;TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Amani, 11 Feb. 1932, Toms H4/32/1!;TANGANYIKA Songea District top of escarpment leading to Mbamba Bay, 25 May 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 10445!UGANDA Ankole District Ruizi R., 18 Oct. 1950, Jarrett 386!;UGANDA Masaka District Bugala Is., Sozi Point, Nov. 1931, Eggeling 256!;UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, Bumpenje Hill, 1 Mar. 1950, Dawkins 531!
Distribution (external)
; Portuguese East Africa
Nyasaland
Northern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
Belgian Congo
Angola
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