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TESSMANNIA densiflora Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
TESSMANNIA densiflora Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in E.J. 53: 462 (1915); L.T.A.: 707 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 107 (1949); J. Léon. in Publ. I.N.E.A.C., Sér. Scient. 45: 36–40 (1950). Types: Tanganyika, Rufiji District, Brulz in Holtz 100 & Martin in Holtz 3130 (B, syn. †)
Information
Tree 20–25 m. high, with an open crown; branchlets shortly hairy, later glabrescent (as are the petioles and leaf-rhachides). Rhachis of leaf (together with petiole) 3–6 cm. long; leaflets alternate to subopposite or opposite, 16–26, oblong, lanceolate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.5 cm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, obtuse and often slightly emarginate at apex, glabrous and reticulate on both surfaces. Inflorescences of axillary, dense-flowered racemes; axis 3–4 cm. long, densely velvety-hairy; pedicels (together with receptacle) up to 7 mm. long in young fruit; flowers red. Sepals ±1.2 cm. long. Petals ± 2 cm. long. Ovary glabrous; stipe villous. Pods (not quite mature) elliptic-suborbicular or obliquely and broadly obovate, 3.3–4.5 cm. long, 2.5–2.8 cm. wide.
Range
DISTR. T6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
said to be on sandy ground at 200_300 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Rufiji District Kichi area, Aug. 1913, Brulz in Holtz 100 & near Mohoro Kichi Hills, Jan. 1913, Martin in Holtz 3130
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, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
TESSMANNIA densiflora Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in E.J. 53: 462 (1915); L.T.A.: 707 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 107 (1949); J. Léon. in Publ. I.N.E.A.C., Sér. Scient. 45: 36–40 (1950). Types: Tanganyika, Rufiji District, Brulz in Holtz 100 & Martin in Holtz 3130 (B, syn. †)
Information
Tree 20–25 m. high, with an open crown; branchlets shortly hairy, later glabrescent (as are the petioles and leaf-rhachides). Rhachis of leaf (together with petiole) 3–6 cm. long; leaflets alternate to subopposite or opposite, 16–26, oblong, lanceolate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.5 cm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, obtuse and often slightly emarginate at apex, glabrous and reticulate on both surfaces. Inflorescences of axillary, dense-flowered racemes; axis 3–4 cm. long, densely velvety-hairy; pedicels (together with receptacle) up to 7 mm. long in young fruit; flowers red. Sepals ±1.2 cm. long. Petals ± 2 cm. long. Ovary glabrous; stipe villous. Pods (not quite mature) elliptic-suborbicular or obliquely and broadly obovate, 3.3–4.5 cm. long, 2.5–2.8 cm. wide.
Range
DISTR. T6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
said to be on sandy ground at 200_300 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Rufiji District Kichi area, Aug. 1913, Brulz in Holtz 100 & near Mohoro Kichi Hills, Jan. 1913, Martin in Holtz 3130
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, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
TESSMANNIA densiflora Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in E.J. 53: 462 (1915); L.T.A.: 707 (1930); T.T.C.L.: 107 (1949); J. Léon. in Publ. I.N.E.A.C., Sér. Scient. 45: 36–40 (1950). Types: Tanganyika, Rufiji District, Brulz in Holtz 100 & Martin in Holtz 3130 (B, syn. †)
Information
Tree 20–25 m. high, with an open crown; branchlets shortly hairy, later glabrescent (as are the petioles and leaf-rhachides). Rhachis of leaf (together with petiole) 3–6 cm. long; leaflets alternate to subopposite or opposite, 16–26, oblong, lanceolate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.5 cm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, obtuse and often slightly emarginate at apex, glabrous and reticulate on both surfaces. Inflorescences of axillary, dense-flowered racemes; axis 3–4 cm. long, densely velvety-hairy; pedicels (together with receptacle) up to 7 mm. long in young fruit; flowers red. Sepals ±1.2 cm. long. Petals ± 2 cm. long. Ovary glabrous; stipe villous. Pods (not quite mature) elliptic-suborbicular or obliquely and broadly obovate, 3.3–4.5 cm. long, 2.5–2.8 cm. wide.
Range
DISTR. T6 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
said to be on sandy ground at 200_300 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Rufiji District Kichi area, Aug. 1913, Brulz in Holtz 100 & near Mohoro Kichi Hills, Jan. 1913, Martin in Holtz 3130
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