Unarmed evergreen or, in
B. plurijuga
, deciduous trees
Leaves
paripinnate or imparipinnate; leaflets alternate, sometimes opposite, 1-5 jugate, large and coriaceous; stipules short
Inflorescences
of terminal or axillary racemes
Flowers
bisexual, irregular, large, pedicellate; bracts and bracteoles present, caducous
Sepals
4, the posticous one larger than the rest, very narrowly imbricate, densely fuscous- or paler brown-tomentellous outside
Petals
5, free, subequal, obovate, imbricate, clawed; claw winged or crisped, sometimes with longitudinal rib
Stamens
10, diadelphous; upper one free; remainder connate below, with alternate filaments silky-pilose below; anthers versatile, dehiscing longitudinally
Ovary
stalked or subsessile, with several ovules, densely villous; style stout, arising obliquely from ovary; stigma small, capitate
Pod
woody, widening from base upwards, obliquely pointed, densely brown-velvety, dehiscing longitudinally into 2 valves
Seeds
broadly elliptic, compressed, with apex of funicle forming small, white aril
x = 11 (aneuploids, polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Baikiaea
Benth.
Bentham: 581 (1865)
Hutchinson: 248 (1964)
Brenan: 108 (1967)
Ross: 35 (1977)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species 5, Africa
Southern Africa
: Species 1:
Baikiaea plurijuga
Harms, Namibia and Botswana
References:
BENTHAM, G. 1865.
Leguminosae
. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker,
Genera plantarum
1. Reeve, London
BRENAN, J.P.M. 1967.
Flora of tropical East Africa
.
Leguminosae
(part 2).
Caesalpinioideae
HUTCHINSON, J. 1964. Order LEGUMINALES.
The genera of flowering plants
1. Oxford University Press, Oxford
ROSS, J.H. 1977.
Fabaceae
.
Caesalpinioideae
.
Flora of southern Africa
16,2
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