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PSEUDOPROSOPIS fischeri (Taub.) Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE]
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
PSEUDOPROSOPIS fischeri (Taub.) Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in E.J. 33: 152 (1902); L.T.A.: 806 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 347 (1949); Gilb. & Bout. in F.C.B. 3: 223 (1952). Type: Tanganyika, Dodoma District, Saranda, Fischer 158 (B, holo. †)
Prosopis fischeri Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in P.O.A. C: 196 (1895)
Information
Shrub or small spreading tree 3–6 m. high, forming coppice, said sometimes to scramble; bark silvery-grey, smooth. Young branchlets, petioles and rhachides densely puberulous; older branchlets longitudinally striate. Leaves: petiole 0.5–2.5 cm. long; rhachis 2.7–6.5 cm. long; pinnae opposite, 3–5(–6) pairs; leaflets 7–15 pairs, 0.5–l.4(–1.9) cm. long, 0.25–0.55 (–0.8) cm. wide, oblong-elliptic, rounded or slightly emarginate and mucronate at apex, normally puberulous on both surfaces. Racemes 4–13 cm. long, on peduncles 0.3–1 cm. long; pedicels 1.5–5(–7) mm. long; axes and pedicels densely puberulous or shortly pubescent; bracts enlarged and trilobed or obtriangular at apex. Flowers creamy, honey-scented. Calyx 1–1.5 mm. long, densely puberulous or shortly pubescent. Petals 3.5–5 mm. long, ± puberulous to almost glabrous outside. Stamen-filaments 6–8 mm. long. Ovary densely hairy. Pods 8.5–16 cm. long, 1.3–2.2 cm. wide, attenuate below, blackish when dry, obliquely longitudinally ± striate. Seeds 10–12 mm. long, 7–9 mm. wide. Fig. 7, p. 27.
Range
DISTR. T4, 5
Altitude range
about 900–1220 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Kasanga, 19 June 1957, Richards 10168!;TANGANYIKA Dodoma District Hika, 10 Dec. 1931, B. D. Burtt 3536! & Manyoni, Kilimatinde road, 12 Dec. 1935, B. D. Burtt 5385!TANGANYIKA Dodoma/Singida District about 32 km. N. of Manyoni, 15 Aug. 1948, van Rensburg 462!
Distribution (external)
; Belgian Congo
Northern Rhodesia
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
PSEUDOPROSOPIS fischeri (Taub.) Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in E.J. 33: 152 (1902); L.T.A.: 806 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 347 (1949); Gilb. & Bout. in F.C.B. 3: 223 (1952). Type: Tanganyika, Dodoma District, Saranda, Fischer 158 (B, holo. †)
Prosopis fischeri Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in P.O.A. C: 196 (1895)
Information
Shrub or small spreading tree 3–6 m. high, forming coppice, said sometimes to scramble; bark silvery-grey, smooth. Young branchlets, petioles and rhachides densely puberulous; older branchlets longitudinally striate. Leaves: petiole 0.5–2.5 cm. long; rhachis 2.7–6.5 cm. long; pinnae opposite, 3–5(–6) pairs; leaflets 7–15 pairs, 0.5–l.4(–1.9) cm. long, 0.25–0.55 (–0.8) cm. wide, oblong-elliptic, rounded or slightly emarginate and mucronate at apex, normally puberulous on both surfaces. Racemes 4–13 cm. long, on peduncles 0.3–1 cm. long; pedicels 1.5–5(–7) mm. long; axes and pedicels densely puberulous or shortly pubescent; bracts enlarged and trilobed or obtriangular at apex. Flowers creamy, honey-scented. Calyx 1–1.5 mm. long, densely puberulous or shortly pubescent. Petals 3.5–5 mm. long, ± puberulous to almost glabrous outside. Stamen-filaments 6–8 mm. long. Ovary densely hairy. Pods 8.5–16 cm. long, 1.3–2.2 cm. wide, attenuate below, blackish when dry, obliquely longitudinally ± striate. Seeds 10–12 mm. long, 7–9 mm. wide. Fig. 7, p. 27.
Range
DISTR. T4, 5
Altitude range
about 900–1220 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Kasanga, 19 June 1957, Richards 10168!;TANGANYIKA Dodoma District Hika, 10 Dec. 1931, B. D. Burtt 3536! & Manyoni, Kilimatinde road, 12 Dec. 1935, B. D. Burtt 5385!TANGANYIKA Dodoma/Singida District about 32 km. N. of Manyoni, 15 Aug. 1948, van Rensburg 462!
Distribution (external)
; Belgian Congo
Northern Rhodesia
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
PSEUDOPROSOPIS fischeri (Taub.) Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in E.J. 33: 152 (1902); L.T.A.: 806 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 347 (1949); Gilb. & Bout. in F.C.B. 3: 223 (1952). Type: Tanganyika, Dodoma District, Saranda, Fischer 158 (B, holo. †)
Prosopis fischeri Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE], in P.O.A. C: 196 (1895)
Information
Shrub or small spreading tree 3–6 m. high, forming coppice, said sometimes to scramble; bark silvery-grey, smooth. Young branchlets, petioles and rhachides densely puberulous; older branchlets longitudinally striate. Leaves: petiole 0.5–2.5 cm. long; rhachis 2.7–6.5 cm. long; pinnae opposite, 3–5(–6) pairs; leaflets 7–15 pairs, 0.5–l.4(–1.9) cm. long, 0.25–0.55 (–0.8) cm. wide, oblong-elliptic, rounded or slightly emarginate and mucronate at apex, normally puberulous on both surfaces. Racemes 4–13 cm. long, on peduncles 0.3–1 cm. long; pedicels 1.5–5(–7) mm. long; axes and pedicels densely puberulous or shortly pubescent; bracts enlarged and trilobed or obtriangular at apex. Flowers creamy, honey-scented. Calyx 1–1.5 mm. long, densely puberulous or shortly pubescent. Petals 3.5–5 mm. long, ± puberulous to almost glabrous outside. Stamen-filaments 6–8 mm. long. Ovary densely hairy. Pods 8.5–16 cm. long, 1.3–2.2 cm. wide, attenuate below, blackish when dry, obliquely longitudinally ± striate. Seeds 10–12 mm. long, 7–9 mm. wide. Fig. 7, p. 27.
Range
DISTR. T4, 5
Altitude range
about 900–1220 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Kasanga, 19 June 1957, Richards 10168!;TANGANYIKA Dodoma District Hika, 10 Dec. 1931, B. D. Burtt 3536! & Manyoni, Kilimatinde road, 12 Dec. 1935, B. D. Burtt 5385!TANGANYIKA Dodoma/Singida District about 32 km. N. of Manyoni, 15 Aug. 1948, van Rensburg 462!
Distribution (external)
; Belgian Congo
Northern Rhodesia
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