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Fabaceae - Caesalpinioideae - Caesalpinieae - Peltophorum (Vogel) Benth.

Description:

  • Unarmed trees
  • Leaves bipinnate; up to 21 pairs of pinnae; leaflets small, many, opposite; stipules small, caducous
  • Inflorescence a raceme; racemes often ± aggregated and panicled; bracts usually linear-lanceolate and caducous
  • Flowers bisexual, irregular
  • Calyx with shortly campanulate tube, 5 lobes imbricate, subequal, longer than tube
  • Petals 5, subequal, upper one often shorter than the others, ± spathulate, strongly imbricate
  • Stamens 10, free, declinate; filaments pilose at base, sometimes glandular; anthers versatile
  • Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, 2-many-ovuled; style with broadly peltate stigma
  • Pod narrowly elliptic to oblong, compressed, with a distinct wing along each margin, indehiscent
  • Seeds 1 or 2(3 or 4), compressed, ± winged
  • x = 7, 13 (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Peltophorum (Vogel) Benth.
    • Bentham: 75 (1840) name conserved
    • Walpers: 811 (1842)
    • Harvey: 270 (1862)
    • Hutchinson: 262 (1964)
    • Verdoorn: t. 1434 (1964)
    • Ross: 130 (1977)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 15, cosmopolitan in tropical regions
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Peltophorum africanum Sond., Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, North-West, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and N KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BENTHAM, G. 1840. Contributions towards a Flora of South America.-Enumeration of plants collected by Mr Schomburgk. Journal of Botany 2
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1862. Leguminosae. Flora capensis 2
  • 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
  • VERDOORN, I.C. 1964. Peltophorum africanum. Flowering Plants of Africa 36
  • WALPERS, W.G. 1842. Repertorium botanices systematicae 1. Hofmeister, Leipzig

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