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Dalbergia acutifoliolata Mendonça & E.P.Sousa

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Dalbergia

Characteristics

Leaves 3.5–6 cm long; rachis including the petiole 1.5–3 cm long, minutely puberulous, soon glabrous; petiolules 1–2.5 mm long; leaflets (1)2–4 on each side of the rachis, alternate or subopposite, 1–5 × 0.5–1.5 cm, lanceolate to subelliptic, acute to obtuse at the apex, obtuse to cuneate at the base, thin and stiff, dull green and glabrous on upper surface, pale, minutely appressed-puberulous and glabrescent beneath, midrib somewhat impressed above, prominent beneath, lateral nerves obsolete; stipules caducous.
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Standard c.10 mm long, reflexed-patent, obovate, emarginate, claw c.2.5 mm long; wings as long as the standard, arcuate, obtuse, auricle acute, claw 3 mm long; keel petals shorter than the wings, dorsally slightly connate, auricle acute, claw 3–3.5 mm long.
Inflorescence an axillary panicle up to 3.5 cm long, minutely fulvous-pubescent; bracts caducous; bracteoles c.1 mm long, present at anthesis.
Branchlets with rather sparse glandular-verrucose hairs, glabrescent, and ± densely lenticellate, lenticels greyish, oblong.
Calyx 4 mm long, thinly subsericeous; upper teeth shallow-lobed, obtuse, the others 1 mm long, acute.
Ovary 2-ovulate, glabrous; style 2 mm long; stipe c.3 mm long.
Flowers white, c.11 mm long; pedicels 1.5–2.5 mm long.
Young parts minutely fulvous-pubescent, glabrescent.
Stamens in 2 bundles of 5.
Climbing shrub.
Pod unknown.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Dalbergia acutifoliolata world distribution map, present in Zambia

Conservation status

Dalbergia acutifoliolata threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:490061-1
WFO ID wfo-0000171688
COL ID 6CBNB
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Synonyms

Dalbergia acutifoliolata
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