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ABRUS sp. A [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
ABRUS sp. A [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Information
Perennial herb 22–30 cm. tall, with several stems from a woody rootstock. Stems adpressed pubescent with mostly pale ferruginous hairs. Leaves 8–16-foliolate; leaflets oblong, 0.8–1.7 cm. long, 4–8 mm. wide, broadly rounded and apiculate at the apex, minutely cordate at the base, ± glabrous above, shortly adpressed pilose beneath; venation raised and reticulate; petiole 1.5–2.5 cm. long. Inflorescences terminal land also with clusters of flowers in the axils below; bracts linear, ± 3 mm. long; bracteoles 2 mm. long. Calyx adpressed pubescent, 3.5 mm. long, shortly toothed. Corolla blue, 1.2–1.3 cm. long. Pods oblong, 3.5 cm. long, 8–9 mm. wide, densely adpressed pubescent. Unripe seeds brown.
Range
DISTR. K7 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
300–420 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Mkurumuji Point area, 28 Mar. 1968, Magogo & Glover 548 ! & Shimba Hills, Longo Magandi, 16 Feb. 1968, Magogo & Glover 122!
Notes
Further material showing ripe fruits is much desired. A fragmentary specimen from Kenya (Kwale District, Shimba Hills, Mwele [Mele], 2 Mar. 1902, Kassner 243 !) scarcely seems identifiable with any other species known from East Africa.
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
ABRUS sp. A [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Information
Perennial herb 22–30 cm. tall, with several stems from a woody rootstock. Stems adpressed pubescent with mostly pale ferruginous hairs. Leaves 8–16-foliolate; leaflets oblong, 0.8–1.7 cm. long, 4–8 mm. wide, broadly rounded and apiculate at the apex, minutely cordate at the base, ± glabrous above, shortly adpressed pilose beneath; venation raised and reticulate; petiole 1.5–2.5 cm. long. Inflorescences terminal land also with clusters of flowers in the axils below; bracts linear, ± 3 mm. long; bracteoles 2 mm. long. Calyx adpressed pubescent, 3.5 mm. long, shortly toothed. Corolla blue, 1.2–1.3 cm. long. Pods oblong, 3.5 cm. long, 8–9 mm. wide, densely adpressed pubescent. Unripe seeds brown.
Range
DISTR. K7 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
300–420 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Mkurumuji Point area, 28 Mar. 1968, Magogo & Glover 548 ! & Shimba Hills, Longo Magandi, 16 Feb. 1968, Magogo & Glover 122!
Notes
Further material showing ripe fruits is much desired. A fragmentary specimen from Kenya (Kwale District, Shimba Hills, Mwele [Mele], 2 Mar. 1902, Kassner 243 !) scarcely seems identifiable with any other species known from East Africa.
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
ABRUS sp. A [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Information
Perennial herb 22–30 cm. tall, with several stems from a woody rootstock. Stems adpressed pubescent with mostly pale ferruginous hairs. Leaves 8–16-foliolate; leaflets oblong, 0.8–1.7 cm. long, 4–8 mm. wide, broadly rounded and apiculate at the apex, minutely cordate at the base, ± glabrous above, shortly adpressed pilose beneath; venation raised and reticulate; petiole 1.5–2.5 cm. long. Inflorescences terminal land also with clusters of flowers in the axils below; bracts linear, ± 3 mm. long; bracteoles 2 mm. long. Calyx adpressed pubescent, 3.5 mm. long, shortly toothed. Corolla blue, 1.2–1.3 cm. long. Pods oblong, 3.5 cm. long, 8–9 mm. wide, densely adpressed pubescent. Unripe seeds brown.
Range
DISTR. K7 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
300–420 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Mkurumuji Point area, 28 Mar. 1968, Magogo & Glover 548 ! & Shimba Hills, Longo Magandi, 16 Feb. 1968, Magogo & Glover 122!
Notes
Further material showing ripe fruits is much desired. A fragmentary specimen from Kenya (Kwale District, Shimba Hills, Mwele [Mele], 2 Mar. 1902, Kassner 243 !) scarcely seems identifiable with any other species known from East Africa.
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