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Dolichandrone alba Sim Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 3, page 61, (1988) Author: M. A. Diniz
Names
Dolichandrone alba Sim Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1919: 308 (1919). TAB. 13. Type: Mozambique, Sim 5244 (destroyed).
Spathodea alba Sim [family BIGNONIACEAE], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 92, t. 75B (1909). Type as above.
Information
Deciduous shrub or small tree 3–12 m. tall. Bark pale brown to greyish longitudinally finely rough. Branchlets puberulous, soon becoming glabrous except at the leaflet articulations and provided with small scales which persist on the inferior surface of the adult leaves. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate, (1)3–4(5)-jugate; leaflets 1.5–7.5 (8.7) × 1–4(5) cm. ovate, elliptic or obovate, the more proximal ones smaller, sessile or subsessile, except the terminal one which is petiolulate, apex rounded to acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire to minutely serrate, undulate; rhachis (2.2)2.7–14.5 cm. slightly sulcate above, terete below; petiole 0.5–3.7(4.7) cm. long, pseudostipules 0.3–1 cm. long, ovate. Inflorescence up to 48 cm. long, many flowered, but only 2–3 flowers opening at the same time; pedicels 1–1.7 cm. long. Calyx 2–3.3 cm. long coriaceous, spathaceous, slightly recurve-beaked, splitting along the posterior side. Corolla tube (3.5) 4–5(5.5) cm. long, narrow, slightly widening at the upper part, glabrous outside, more or less brownish pilose inside towards the base; corolla lobes white, 2–3 × 1.7–2.5 cm. rounded, somewhat fleshy, wavy at the margin. Stamens didynamous; subsessile, included, adnate up to about four fifths from the base of the corolla tube; anthers c. 3mm. long. Disk 2 mm. long, annular. Ovary c. 5 mm. long, longitudinally bisulcate. Capsule 17–38 (50) cm. long, 1.3–2.8 cm. across and c. 0.5 cm. thick. Seeds 0.6–1 × 2.5–4.2 cm., including the wing.
Habitat
In dry deciduous woodland, fringing forests or thickets, on sandy soils, mainly near the coast
Range
Known only from S. Mozambique
Altitude range
low altitude.
800
0
inferred from low
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Av. Afonso de Albuquerque, near the Swiss Mission, fl. 4.i.1941, Hornby 4105 (LMA).Mozambique GI Gaza, 30 km. of Manjacaze, fl. & fr. 26.i.1941, Torre 2560 (FHO; K; LISC; SRGH).
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 3, page 61, (1988) Author: M. A. Diniz
Names
Dolichandrone alba Sim Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1919: 308 (1919). TAB. 13. Type: Mozambique, Sim 5244 (destroyed).
Spathodea alba Sim [family BIGNONIACEAE], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 92, t. 75B (1909). Type as above.
Information
Deciduous shrub or small tree 3–12 m. tall. Bark pale brown to greyish longitudinally finely rough. Branchlets puberulous, soon becoming glabrous except at the leaflet articulations and provided with small scales which persist on the inferior surface of the adult leaves. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate, (1)3–4(5)-jugate; leaflets 1.5–7.5 (8.7) × 1–4(5) cm. ovate, elliptic or obovate, the more proximal ones smaller, sessile or subsessile, except the terminal one which is petiolulate, apex rounded to acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire to minutely serrate, undulate; rhachis (2.2)2.7–14.5 cm. slightly sulcate above, terete below; petiole 0.5–3.7(4.7) cm. long, pseudostipules 0.3–1 cm. long, ovate. Inflorescence up to 48 cm. long, many flowered, but only 2–3 flowers opening at the same time; pedicels 1–1.7 cm. long. Calyx 2–3.3 cm. long coriaceous, spathaceous, slightly recurve-beaked, splitting along the posterior side. Corolla tube (3.5) 4–5(5.5) cm. long, narrow, slightly widening at the upper part, glabrous outside, more or less brownish pilose inside towards the base; corolla lobes white, 2–3 × 1.7–2.5 cm. rounded, somewhat fleshy, wavy at the margin. Stamens didynamous; subsessile, included, adnate up to about four fifths from the base of the corolla tube; anthers c. 3mm. long. Disk 2 mm. long, annular. Ovary c. 5 mm. long, longitudinally bisulcate. Capsule 17–38 (50) cm. long, 1.3–2.8 cm. across and c. 0.5 cm. thick. Seeds 0.6–1 × 2.5–4.2 cm., including the wing.
Habitat
In dry deciduous woodland, fringing forests or thickets, on sandy soils, mainly near the coast
Range
Known only from S. Mozambique
Altitude range
low altitude.
800
0
inferred from low
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Av. Afonso de Albuquerque, near the Swiss Mission, fl. 4.i.1941, Hornby 4105 (LMA).Mozambique GI Gaza, 30 km. of Manjacaze, fl. & fr. 26.i.1941, Torre 2560 (FHO; K; LISC; SRGH).
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 3, page 61, (1988) Author: M. A. Diniz
Names
Dolichandrone alba Sim Sprague [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1919: 308 (1919). TAB. 13. Type: Mozambique, Sim 5244 (destroyed).
Spathodea alba Sim [family BIGNONIACEAE], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 92, t. 75B (1909). Type as above.
Information
Deciduous shrub or small tree 3–12 m. tall. Bark pale brown to greyish longitudinally finely rough. Branchlets puberulous, soon becoming glabrous except at the leaflet articulations and provided with small scales which persist on the inferior surface of the adult leaves. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate, (1)3–4(5)-jugate; leaflets 1.5–7.5 (8.7) × 1–4(5) cm. ovate, elliptic or obovate, the more proximal ones smaller, sessile or subsessile, except the terminal one which is petiolulate, apex rounded to acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire to minutely serrate, undulate; rhachis (2.2)2.7–14.5 cm. slightly sulcate above, terete below; petiole 0.5–3.7(4.7) cm. long, pseudostipules 0.3–1 cm. long, ovate. Inflorescence up to 48 cm. long, many flowered, but only 2–3 flowers opening at the same time; pedicels 1–1.7 cm. long. Calyx 2–3.3 cm. long coriaceous, spathaceous, slightly recurve-beaked, splitting along the posterior side. Corolla tube (3.5) 4–5(5.5) cm. long, narrow, slightly widening at the upper part, glabrous outside, more or less brownish pilose inside towards the base; corolla lobes white, 2–3 × 1.7–2.5 cm. rounded, somewhat fleshy, wavy at the margin. Stamens didynamous; subsessile, included, adnate up to about four fifths from the base of the corolla tube; anthers c. 3mm. long. Disk 2 mm. long, annular. Ovary c. 5 mm. long, longitudinally bisulcate. Capsule 17–38 (50) cm. long, 1.3–2.8 cm. across and c. 0.5 cm. thick. Seeds 0.6–1 × 2.5–4.2 cm., including the wing.
Habitat
In dry deciduous woodland, fringing forests or thickets, on sandy soils, mainly near the coast
Range
Known only from S. Mozambique
Altitude range
low altitude.
800
0
inferred from low
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, Av. Afonso de Albuquerque, near the Swiss Mission, fl. 4.i.1941, Hornby 4105 (LMA).Mozambique GI Gaza, 30 km. of Manjacaze, fl. & fr. 26.i.1941, Torre 2560 (FHO; K; LISC; SRGH).
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