Millettia stuhlmannii

PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / PAPILIONOIDEAE / MILLETTIEAE / MILLETTIA / STUHLMANNII

Millettia stuhlmannii Taub.

NE Indigenous

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Morphological description

Tree 6-24 m tall with a spreading crown; bark greenish-yellow, greenish-grey or reddish, smooth, papery and flaky (but has been described as grey and rough in part); slash yellow. Young branchlets with minute appressed white hairs. Leaves 7-9-foliolate; petiole 3-12 cm long; rachis minutely hairy, 7-18 cm long; leaflets 7-24 x 5.5-15.5 cm, oblong to elliptic or obovate, round to emarginate at the apex, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, almost glabrous above, sparsely pubescent beneath; lateral nerves 7-10 on each side, reaching the margin; stipules 10-14 x 3-6 mm, ± oblong, with an oblong appendage at the base, soon falling; stipels 5-8 mm long, filiform, persistent; petiolules 6-12 mm long. Inflorescences paniculate, pendulous, 20-40(70) cm long, grey-velvety with minute hairs; branches numerous, 1-9 cm long; bracts small, ovate, falling very early; pedicels 8-11 mm long; bracteoles 2-3 mm long, ovate-oblong, up to 1 mm below calyx, soon falling. Flowers scented. Calyx minutely velvety; tube 6-8 mm long; lobes 5-7 mm long, ovate-oblong, rounded, overlapping at the base, laterals 4-5(8) mm wide, the upper pair united to within 1 mm of the tip. Corolla purple or lilac, white or cream at the base, veined, glabrous; standard 2-2.6 x 2.5-2.8 cm, almost round, with auricles 2-3 mm long and 2 shelf-like appendages 3 x 1-2 mm across the top of the 4-5 mm long claw; wing-blades 2.3 x 1.1 cm, with claw 4-7 mm long; blades of keel petals 2.2 x 1.1 cm with similar claws. Stamen sheath 2-2.5 cm long with free parts of filaments 4-8 mm long; upper stamen free and strongly bent at base; anthers 1.3-1.8 mm long. Disk short. Ovary 1-1.1 cm long, 8-10-ovuled, densely silky; stipe 5-6 mm long; style curved, glabrous except at base; stigma globular. Pod yellow-brown, woody, 18-47 x 3-5.1 cm, densely velvety when young, eventually glabrous, lenticellate, rugulose, 6-8-seeded. Seeds chocolate-brown to blackish-purple, transversely positioned, 2-2.4 x 1.5-2 x 0.4 cm, broadly elliptic or ± round, flattened, ± discoid; hilum placed at one end, surrounded by a yellow rim aril prolonged at one side into a ligulate process 1.5-3 mm long pressed against the funicle which is slightly enlarged at both ends. From: Verdcourt, B. 2007. 61. Leguminosae (Papilionoideae): Tribe 4. Millettieae: 17 Millettia Wight & Arn. Fl. Zambes. 3(3): 103-116. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. [CC BY]

Habitat

Locally frequent in high rainfall areas at low altitudes, in forest or woodland and beside streams. often in riverine and degraded associations, or persisting on cleared grassy plateaux; on white or red sands, often in rocky places; 10-1020 m. From: Verdcourt, B. 2007. 61. Leguminosae (Papilionoideae): Tribe 4. Millettieae: 17 Millettia Wight & Arn. Fl. Zambes. 3(3): 103-116. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. [CC BY]

Altitude

100 to 500 m

Occurrence records map

This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

FSA

BOT

NAM

ESW

LES

KZN

Absent

Indigenous

Endemic

Naturalised

Invasive

Names and Sources

Accepted name

Millettia stuhlmannii Taub.

Synonym(s)

Common name	Language	Reference/barcode
grootblaaromsambeet	Afrikaans	Van Wyk, AE; Van den Berg, E; Coates Palgrave, M; Jordaan, M. 2011. Dictionary of names for southern African trees. Briza, Arcadia.
grootblaar-omsambeet	Afrikaans	Von Breitenbach, JM; De Winter, B; Poynton, R; Van den Berg, E; Van Wyk, AE. 2001. Pocket list of southern Africa indigenous trees. Briza publications & Dendrological foundation, Pretoria.
large-leaved umzimbeet	English	Van Wyk, AE; Van den Berg, E; Coates Palgrave, M; Jordaan, M. 2011. Dictionary of names for southern African trees. Briza, Arcadia.
large-leaved umzimbeet	English	Von Breitenbach, JM; De Winter, B; Poynton, R; Van den Berg, E; Van Wyk, AE. 2001. Pocket list of southern Africa indigenous trees. Briza publications & Dendrological foundation, Pretoria.
moada	Tsonga	Van Wyk, AE; Van den Berg, E; Coates Palgrave, M; Jordaan, M. 2011. Dictionary of names for southern African trees. Briza, Arcadia.
muangaila	Venda	Glen, HF; Hardy, DS; Weisser, PJ. 2001. Miri Yapo Ya Venda Indigenous Trees of Venda. University of Venda for Science and Tech, Thohoya.
muangaila	Venda	Van Wyk, AE; Van den Berg, E; Coates Palgrave, M; Jordaan, M. 2011. Dictionary of names for southern African trees. Briza, Arcadia.
pangapanga	English	Van Wyk, AE; Van den Berg, E; Coates Palgrave, M; Jordaan, M. 2011. Dictionary of names for southern African trees. Briza, Arcadia.
panga-panga	English	Von Breitenbach, JM; De Winter, B; Poynton, R; Van den Berg, E; Van Wyk, AE. 2001. Pocket list of southern Africa indigenous trees. Briza publications & Dendrological foundation, Pretoria.
patryshout	Afrikaans	Van Wyk, AE; Van den Berg, E; Coates Palgrave, M; Jordaan, M. 2011. Dictionary of names for southern African trees. Briza, Arcadia.
patryshout	Afrikaans	Von Breitenbach, JM; De Winter, B; Poynton, R; Van den Berg, E; Van Wyk, AE. 2001. Pocket list of southern Africa indigenous trees. Briza publications & Dendrological foundation, Pretoria.