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BAPHIA semseiana Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
BAPHIA semseiana Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in K.B. 22: 516, fig. 1 (1968). Type: Tanganyika, Morogoro District, Nguru Mts., Turiani, above Mhonda Mission, Semsei 2632 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
Information
Small tree up to 10 m. high. Young branches and inflorescence-axes thinly to fairly densely covered with dark brown, appressed or ascending hairs. Leaves: petiole 1.2–10 cm.; lamina ± narrowly elliptic, 5–21 cm. long, 2.5–8 cm. wide, 2.5–4 times as long as broad, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base, obtuse to rounded at the apex, coriaceous, with a reticulate venation prominent on both surfaces; both surfaces glabrous, at least at maturity. Flowers in fairly lax terminal and axillary racemes aggregated to form a terminal panicle up to 25 cm. long; bracts as in B. macrocalyx but usually narrower, up to 5 × 2 mm.; pedicels 5–15 mm.; bracteoles suborbicular or ovate, 2–3.5 mm. long, 1.5–2.2 mm. wide, inserted immediately beneath the calyx and opposite each other or slightly asymmetrically placed. Calyx 11–14 mm. long, densely pubescent with appressed dark brown hairs, at anthesis splitting to the base down 2 sides into 2 sub-equal halves which fall separately. Petals pale pink with a yellow blotch near the base; standard 16–21 mm. long; wings 16–19 mm. long; keel-petals 13–16 mm. long. Stamen-filaments densely hairy; anthers 2–2.5 mm. long. Ovary brown tomentose with a glabrous style. Pods 7–12 cm. long, 1.3–1.9 cm. wide, strongly curved upwards above the middle, glabrous at maturity, brown.
Range
DISTR. T6 not known elsewhere
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Liwale R. close to Turiani Falls, 4 Nov. 1947, Brenan & Greenway 8276 ! & Mhonda sawmill, 21 Aug. 1951, Greenway & Farquhar 8644 !TANGANYIKA Ulanga District near Ifakara, Funga, 11 Sept. 1959, Haerdi 335 ! .
Notes
B. semseiana is very similar to B. macrocalyx and these species, together with B. bergeri De Wild, from the Congo, differ from other species of Baphia in having hairy stamen-filaments. B. semseiana differs from B. macrocalyx most significantly in its calyx, which splits at anthesis into two separate pieces instead of down one side only.
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, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
BAPHIA semseiana Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in K.B. 22: 516, fig. 1 (1968). Type: Tanganyika, Morogoro District, Nguru Mts., Turiani, above Mhonda Mission, Semsei 2632 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
Information
Small tree up to 10 m. high. Young branches and inflorescence-axes thinly to fairly densely covered with dark brown, appressed or ascending hairs. Leaves: petiole 1.2–10 cm.; lamina ± narrowly elliptic, 5–21 cm. long, 2.5–8 cm. wide, 2.5–4 times as long as broad, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base, obtuse to rounded at the apex, coriaceous, with a reticulate venation prominent on both surfaces; both surfaces glabrous, at least at maturity. Flowers in fairly lax terminal and axillary racemes aggregated to form a terminal panicle up to 25 cm. long; bracts as in B. macrocalyx but usually narrower, up to 5 × 2 mm.; pedicels 5–15 mm.; bracteoles suborbicular or ovate, 2–3.5 mm. long, 1.5–2.2 mm. wide, inserted immediately beneath the calyx and opposite each other or slightly asymmetrically placed. Calyx 11–14 mm. long, densely pubescent with appressed dark brown hairs, at anthesis splitting to the base down 2 sides into 2 sub-equal halves which fall separately. Petals pale pink with a yellow blotch near the base; standard 16–21 mm. long; wings 16–19 mm. long; keel-petals 13–16 mm. long. Stamen-filaments densely hairy; anthers 2–2.5 mm. long. Ovary brown tomentose with a glabrous style. Pods 7–12 cm. long, 1.3–1.9 cm. wide, strongly curved upwards above the middle, glabrous at maturity, brown.
Range
DISTR. T6 not known elsewhere
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Liwale R. close to Turiani Falls, 4 Nov. 1947, Brenan & Greenway 8276 ! & Mhonda sawmill, 21 Aug. 1951, Greenway & Farquhar 8644 !TANGANYIKA Ulanga District near Ifakara, Funga, 11 Sept. 1959, Haerdi 335 ! .
Notes
B. semseiana is very similar to B. macrocalyx and these species, together with B. bergeri De Wild, from the Congo, differ from other species of Baphia in having hairy stamen-filaments. B. semseiana differs from B. macrocalyx most significantly in its calyx, which splits at anthesis into two separate pieces instead of down one side only.
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, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
BAPHIA semseiana Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in K.B. 22: 516, fig. 1 (1968). Type: Tanganyika, Morogoro District, Nguru Mts., Turiani, above Mhonda Mission, Semsei 2632 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
Information
Small tree up to 10 m. high. Young branches and inflorescence-axes thinly to fairly densely covered with dark brown, appressed or ascending hairs. Leaves: petiole 1.2–10 cm.; lamina ± narrowly elliptic, 5–21 cm. long, 2.5–8 cm. wide, 2.5–4 times as long as broad, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base, obtuse to rounded at the apex, coriaceous, with a reticulate venation prominent on both surfaces; both surfaces glabrous, at least at maturity. Flowers in fairly lax terminal and axillary racemes aggregated to form a terminal panicle up to 25 cm. long; bracts as in B. macrocalyx but usually narrower, up to 5 × 2 mm.; pedicels 5–15 mm.; bracteoles suborbicular or ovate, 2–3.5 mm. long, 1.5–2.2 mm. wide, inserted immediately beneath the calyx and opposite each other or slightly asymmetrically placed. Calyx 11–14 mm. long, densely pubescent with appressed dark brown hairs, at anthesis splitting to the base down 2 sides into 2 sub-equal halves which fall separately. Petals pale pink with a yellow blotch near the base; standard 16–21 mm. long; wings 16–19 mm. long; keel-petals 13–16 mm. long. Stamen-filaments densely hairy; anthers 2–2.5 mm. long. Ovary brown tomentose with a glabrous style. Pods 7–12 cm. long, 1.3–1.9 cm. wide, strongly curved upwards above the middle, glabrous at maturity, brown.
Range
DISTR. T6 not known elsewhere
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Liwale R. close to Turiani Falls, 4 Nov. 1947, Brenan & Greenway 8276 ! & Mhonda sawmill, 21 Aug. 1951, Greenway & Farquhar 8644 !TANGANYIKA Ulanga District near Ifakara, Funga, 11 Sept. 1959, Haerdi 335 ! .
Notes
B. semseiana is very similar to B. macrocalyx and these species, together with B. bergeri De Wild, from the Congo, differ from other species of Baphia in having hairy stamen-filaments. B. semseiana differs from B. macrocalyx most significantly in its calyx, which splits at anthesis into two separate pieces instead of down one side only.
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