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Fabaceae - Caesalpinioideae - Caesalpinieae - Burkea Benth.

Description:

  • Unarmed, trees, rusty-tomentose on young branchlets
  • Leaves petiolate, bipinnate, with (1)2-5(7) pairs of pinnae; leaflets usually somewhat elliptic, leathery, eglandular
  • Inflorescences of elongated spikes, simple or often paniculately aggregated; bracts small, persistent until flowers open
  • Flowers bisexual, irregular, 5-merous, small
  • Calyx shortly campanulate, with oblong lobes longer than tube, valvate
  • Petals subequal, obovate-oblong, imbricate, Stamens 10, subequal; anthers with sessile apical gland
  • Ovary subsessile, 1(2)-ovulate, densely rusty-tomentose; style thick; stigma terminal, funnel-shaped, slit down one side
  • Pod stipitate, coriaceous, elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, flattened, indehiscent
  • Seeds compressed with an areole on each face, sometimes aborted

Nomenclature:

  • Burkea Benth.
    • Bentham: 593 (1843)
    • Harvey: 271 (1862)
    • Brenan: 221 (1967)
    • Ross: 15 (1977)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 1: Burkea africana Hook., tropical and subtropical Africa
  • Southern Africa: N Namibia, and the four northern provinces

References:

  • BENTHAM, G. 1843. In W.J. Hooker, Icones plantarum 6
  • BRENAN, J.P.M. 1967. Flora of tropical East Africa. Leguminosae (part 2). Caesalpinioideae
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1862. Leguminosae. Flora capensis 2
  • ROSS, J.H. 1977. Fabaceae. Caesalpinioideae. Flora of southern Africa 16,2

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