Fabaceae - Papilionoideae - Tephrosieae - Craibia Harms & Dunn
Description:
Trees or shrubs, usually with golden brown or black indumentum
Leaves pulvinate, usually imparipinnate, rarely 1-foliolate; leaflets usually up to 11, alternate or rarely subopposite, acuminate; stipels present or 0
Flowers white, usually speckled or streaked with pink or purple, usually fragrant, in terminal, rarely axillary, racemes or panicles; bracts and bracteoles caducous
Calyx tubular, with short lobes, upper pairs united for half their length
Petals: vexillum shortly clawed, with lamina oblong, not appendaged; wings and keel auriculate
Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous; adaxial stamen free, but sometimes adhering in middle; anthers uniform, without appendages
Ovary shortly stalked; style with a small, terminal punctate or capitate stigma; ovules 2-6
Pod flat, asymmetric, shortly beaked, dehiscing into thin, woody, twisted valves
Seeds 1-3, ellipsoid, black or dark brown
Nomenclature:
Craibia Harms & Dunn
Harms & Dunn: 106 (1911)
Gillett: 189 (1960)
Hutchinson: 378 (1964)
Gillett: 146 (1971)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species 10, tropical Africa
Southern Africa: Species 1: Craibia zimmermannii (Harms) Dunn, N KwaZulu-Natal and possibly Swaziland
References:
GILLETT, J.B. 1960. The genus Craibia. Kew Bulletin 14
GILLETT, J.B. 1971. Flora of tropical East Africa. Leguminosae (part 3). Papilionoideae
HARMS, H.A.T. & DUNN, S.T. 1911. Craibia, a new genus of Leguminosae. The Journal of Botany 49
HUTCHINSON, J. 1964. Order LEGUMINALES. The genera of flowering plants 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford
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