Brachystegia stipulata De Wild.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Brachystegia

Characteristics

Tree or treelet 1–7(–9) m. high; mature bark rough, reticulate to fissured, persistent, grey; crown umbrella-shaped or flat; foliage maturing green, often glaucous beneath.. Stipules shortly connate, linear to falcate, 1–2 cm. long, usually persistent; auricle usually very persistent and conspicuous, 1–2 cm. long, broadly reniform; intrapetiolar stipule-bases persistent, subtending flattened and laterally keeled dormant buds.. Leaves with (5–)6–8(–10) pairs of leaflets, the middle pairs usually the largest; petiole 1–2 cm. long; rhachis (6–)8–15(–20) cm. long, channelled; stipellar expansions variable, often obscure or 0; leaflets oblong-elliptic or more rarely narrowed to the retuse or rounded apex, (2–)3–6(–8) × (1–)1.5–2(–4) cm., ± obliquely rounded to cordate at base; midrib subcentral; basal fanwise nerves (3–)4–5(–6).. Racemes simple or few-branched, terminal or terminal and axillary.. Flowers few, large; bracteoles 13–20 × 6–10 mm.. Tepals 6–8(–11), imbricate, usually all sepaloid and grading from broad to narrow, 4–8 mm. long, densely long-ciliate, or obscurely in 2 whorls with the inner spathulate to vestigial.. Stamens 13–18 (sometimes with staminodes, totalling ± 20); filaments 25–30(–40) mm. long, ± connate, the tube usually subequal to the tepals.. Ovary 8–10 × 1.5–3 mm., ± densely crispate-setose, tapering gradually into the 20–30 mm. long erect style with small stigma.. Pod woody, up to 15(–22) × 5 cm., smooth but often transversely nervose, rarely scurfy in patches, maturing pinkish-(usually pale) brown; sutural wings stiffly spreading, each 4–8 mm. wide.. Fig. 35/13.
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Leaves 6–20 cm long; petiole 10–25 mm long, rachis deeply canaliculate above with raised and winged margins; leaflets in 5–8(10) overlapping or contiguous pairs, the middle leaflet pairs the largest, the proximal ones 2–7 × 1–3.5 cm, the middle ones 4–8 × 1.5 cm, the distal ones 3–6 × 1.2–2.5 cm, narrowly ovate, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute, emarginate to retuse at the apex, obliquely cordate at the base, midvein subcentral or central, 3–4 secondary veins diverging from the base.
Stipules persistent, 10–20 × 1–5 mm, shortly connate at the base, linear to falcate; auricles 8–35 × 5–15 mm, persistent independently of stipules, reniform to semicircular, palmately nerved.
Inflorescences in terminal and/or axillary panicles up to 4 cm long; bracts 3–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, ovate to oblong, acute at the apex.
Sepals 5–8, 4–8 × 1–3 mm, obovate, lanceolate, oblong, or linear, densely pubescent on the margins.
Small to medium tree to 8 m tall; bark deeply or reticulately fissured, flaking in thick scales.
Pods 9–23 × 3.5–5 cm, oblong, with spreading or suberect ventral flanges up to 10 mm wide.
Flowers 7–15 × 4–6 mm; pedicels 2–15 mm long; bracteoles 11–20 × 5–10 mm, orbicular.
Ovary 8–10 × 2–3 mm, up to 12-ovulate, stipe to 4 mm long; style to 25 mm long.
Stamens 12–18(20), united to 6 mm at the base; filaments 25–45 mm long.
Petals 1–4, 3–7 × 0.4–1.5 mm, filiform, linear or spathulate.
Seeds up to 11, 20–25 × 15–20 mm, round to oblong.
Dormant axillary buds much flattened.
Young branchlets densely pubescent.
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Uses fuel material
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Distribution

Brachystegia stipulata world distribution map, present in Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, United Republic of, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:482257-1
WFO ID wfo-0000213980
COL ID N25H
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Synonyms

Brachystegia stipulata Brachystegia lufirensis Brachystegia velutina Brachystegia thomasii Brachystegia kassneri Brachystegia velutina var. quarrei

Lower taxons

Brachystegia stipulata var. lufirensis Brachystegia stipulata var. velutina