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Fabaceae - Caesalpinioideae - Cercideae - Adenolobus (Harv. ex Benth.) Torre & Hillc.

Description:

  • Erect or prostrate shrubs or small trees, with greyish to white bark, glabrous or sparsely covered with stout, multicellular sessile glands
  • Leaves alternate, simple, small, sometimes borne on abbreviated lateral shoots, emarginate apically or shallowly bilobed, truncate to cordate basally; lobes obliquely obovate to semicircular, light to greyish green, petiolate; stipules narrowly triangular, acuminate
  • Inflorescence a short or elongate raceme or flowers borne on abbreviated lateral shoots
  • Flowers bisexual, irregular, medium to rather small
  • Calyx broadly campanulate, with 5 short teeth or lobes ± equal in size, persistent, covered in some instances with multicellular glands
  • Petals 5, obovate or elliptical to lanceolate, narrowed basally into a claw
  • Stamens 10, free, all functional, some longer than petals
  • Ovary stalked; stalk ± 20 mm long, not fused to calyx tube
  • Pod crescent-shaped to shortly and broadly falcate, rounded, membranous, glandular or eglandular, with several seeds
  • Seeds small
  • x = 14 (1 report)

Nomenclature:

  • Adenolobus (Harv. ex Benth.) Torre & Hillc.
    • Torre & Hillcoat: 37 (1955)
    • Torre & Hillcoat: 194 (1956)
    • Schreiber: 4 (1967)
    • Brummitt & Ross: 400 (1976)
    • Coetzer & Ross: 55 (1977)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 2, Africa, occurring in S Angola and southern Africa
  • Southern Africa: Namibia, N Botswana and Northern Cape

References:

  • BRUMMITT, R.K. & ROSS, J.H. 1976. A reconsideration of the genus Adenolobus (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae). Kew Bulletin 31
  • COETZER, L.A. & ROSS, J.H. 1977. Subfamily 2. Caesalpinioideae. Flora of southern Africa 16,2
  • SCHREIBER, A. 1967. Caesalpiniaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 59
  • TORRE, A.R. DA & HILLCOAT, J.O.D. 1955. Novidades da flora de Angola por A.W. Exell e F.A. Mendonça. Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana ser. 2, 29
  • TORRE, A.R. DA & HILLCOAT, J.O.D 1956. Caesalpinioideae. Conspectus florae Angolensis 2

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