Entada bacillaris F. White, Bol. Soc. Brot., ser . 2, 33: 5. 1959.
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Entada bacillaris F. White, Bol. Soc. Brot., ser . 2, 33: 5. 1959. |
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Entada bacillaris F. White, Bol. Soc. Brot., ser. 2, 33: 5. 1959.
Type.
ZAMBIA. Abercorn District , Kambole escarpment, H.M. Richards 9986 (holotype: K [K000232144, K000232145 & K000232146]; isotypes: BR [BR0000006251895 & BR0000006252229]) .
Description.
Shrub 1.2-1.8 m tall, little-branched, young stems with golden to grey indumentum. Leaves: rachis 17-30 cm long, pubescent, tendrils absent; pinnae 3-4(-10) pairs per leaf, 10-17.5 cm long, with 8-13(-24) pairs of leaflets; leaflets (1.3-)2-4(-4.6) × (0.4-)1-1.7 cm, oblong-elliptic, apex rounded to sub-truncate, base obliquely rounded to sub-cordate, mid-rib nearly central, lamina sub-glabrous above, pubescent below. Inflorescence: an axillary spiciform raceme, 8-18 cm long, 1-3 per axil, peduncle and rachis pubescent. Flowers: greenish-white to yellow, pedicels 1-1.5 mm long; calyx 1-2 mm long, shallowly toothed, glabrous to slightly pubescent at teeth apices; petals 2.5-4 × 1-1.2 mm; stamen filaments 5-6 mm long. Fruit: a torulose, laterally compressed, slightly curved craspedium, 26-37 × 8-9 cm, with transverse septa between seeds dividing the fruit into one-seeded segments which, upon ripening, fall from the persistent replum; segments slightly umbonate over seeds. Seeds: ovoid, compressed, 1.2-1.5 × 0.9-1.1 × 0.3-0.4 cm, pleurogram heart-shaped, becoming diffuse near hilum.
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