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Fabaceae - Mimosoideae - Mimoseae - Amblygonocarpus Harms

Description:

  • Unarmed trees, glabrous
  • Leaves bipinnate, eglandular; with 2-6 pairs of pinnae, each with several pairs of alternate or sometimes subopposite leaflets
  • Inflorescences of solitary or paired axillary racemes
  • Flowers bisexual, yellowish white, pedicellate
  • Calyx gamosepalous, very small, with 5 (rarely 6) teeth
  • Petals 5 (rarely 6), free
  • Stamens 10 (rarely 12), free, fertile; anthers eglandular apically even in bud
  • Ovary very shortly stipitate
  • Pod straight or nearly so, oblong, woody, indehiscent, bluntly tetragonal or subterete in section, internally septate between seeds
  • Seeds brown, smooth, hard, unwinged

Nomenclature:

  • Amblygonocarpus Harms
    • Harms: 191 (1897)
    • Brenan: 32 (1959)
    • Brenan & Brummitt: 35 (1970)
    • Ross: 132 (1975)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 1: Amblygonocarpus andongensis (Welw. ex Oliv.) Exell & Torre, southern Africa and tropical Africa
  • Southern Africa: Namibia in the Caprivi Strip and Botswana

References:

  • BRENAN, J.P.M. 1959. Flora of tropical East Africa. Leguminosae (part 1). Mimosoideae
  • BRENAN, J.P.M. & BRUMMITT, R.K. 1970. Leguminosae. Flora zambesiaca 3,1
  • HARMS, H.A.T. 1897. Leguminosae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Nachträge zum 2.-4. Teil
  • ROSS, J.H. 1975. Fabaceae. Mimosoideae. Flora of southern Africa 16,1