Leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets opposite, sessile, asymmetric, entire, rarely with a terminal leaflet, usually with many pellucid gland dots; stipules small, soon deciduous
Flowers bisexual, irregular, sessile or pedicellate, in more than 2 rows on branches, in terminal panicles; branches strobiliform when young; bracts mostly small, bracteoles 2, persistent or falling before flowers open
Calyx with 4 subequal sepals, imbricate
Petals 0
Disc present, ± fleshy
Stamens 8-12, free, alternately longer and shorter; anthers ovoid, dorsifixed
Ovary stalked or sessile, with 1-4 ovules; style filiform with terminal, capitate stigma
Pod ± stalked, suborbicular to obliquely elliptic, flat or dilated, coriaceous or membranous, dehiscent or indehiscent, unilaterally winged
Seeds 1 or 2, sometimes arillate
x = 12 (polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Guibourtia Benn.
Bennett: 149 (1857)
Léonard: 400 (1949) name emended
Léonard: 269 (1950)
Hutchinson: 256 (1964)
Brenan: 136 (1967)
Ross: 19 (1977)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 16, tropical Africa and America
Southern Africa: Species 2, N Namibia and Northern Province
References:
BENNETT, J.J. 1857. Description of the kobo-tree, a new genus of Leguminosae, collected by Dr. W.F. Daniell. Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society 1
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
LÉONARD, J.J.G. 1949. Notulae Systematicae IV (Caesalpiniaceae-Amherstieae africanae americanaeque) Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État Bruxelles 19
LÉONARD, J.J.G. 1950. Notulae Systematicae IX. Nouvelles observations sur le genre Guibourtia (Caesalpiniaceae). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l' État Bruxelles 20
ROSS, J.H. 1977. Fabaceae. Caesalpinioideae. Flora of southern Africa 16,2
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