Synonyms:
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Baphia ringoetii De Wild.
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Common names:
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Frequency:
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Locally common |
Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Shrub or small tree up to 10 m high; young branches, petioles and surfaces of young leaves, stipules, pedicels, bracteoles and calyces covered with dense brown tomentum, upper surface of leaves soon glabrescent; leaflet up to 15(17.5) × 12(15.5) cm, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, rounded to slightly cordate at the base, obtuse to rounded or emarginate at the apex; petiole up to 10(12.5) cm long; flowers in fairly dense axillary fascicles; pedicels 20–40 mm long; calyx 10–18 mm long, spathaceous, usually falling before the petals; petals white with yellow markings at the base of the standard; standard 16–21 mm long; wings slightly shorter; keel petals about as long as the standard; pod up to 18 × 3.5 cm, brown-tomentose. |
Type location:
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DRC (Katanga) |
Notes:
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Derivation of specific name:
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bequaertii: after Joseph Charles Corneille Bequaert, a Belgian-American botanist, entomologist and malacologist who collected the type specimen |
Habitat:
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Miombo and chipya woodland |
Altitude range: |
1200 - 1500 m |
Flowering time: | Sep - Nov |
Worldwide distribution:
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DRC (Katanga), Angola and Zambia. |
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):
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N,W,C,S |
Zambian distribution (Provinces):
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Nw,N,C,S |
Growth form(s):
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Tree.
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Endemic status:
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Red data list status:
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Insects associated with this species:
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Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: |
Thursday 1 December 2022 |
Literature:
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Brummitt, R.K., Harder, D.K., Lewis, G.P., Lock, J.M., Polhill, R.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2007). Leguminosae Subfamily Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(3) Pages 43 - 45.
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