Erythrophleum lasianthum Corbishley

Species

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Characteristics

Tree up to 14 m high with a ± rounded crown. Bark greyish-brown, rough, fissured; young branchlets glabrous or sometimes thinly pubescent. Leaves glabrous: petiole 3.5-5.6 cm long; rhachis 3-15 cm long; pinnae 2-4 pairs; rhachillae 6-15 cm long; leaflets (4)9-13 per pinna, (1.8)2.5-5(6.5) cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, obliquely ovate to ovate-elliptic, slightly asymmetric basally, usually ± acuminate apically and slightly emarginate, chartaceous, venation relatively inconspicuous apart from the midrib, glabrous on both surfaces or rarely the midrib slightly pubescent on the lower surface; petiolules up to 5(7) mm long, glabrous. Racemes 5-10 cm long including the peduncle, ± aggregated; axis and peduncle densely puberulous to pubescent with appressed or shortly spreading rusty-brown hairs, seldom glabrescent. Flowers cream to greenish-yellow, on pedicels 1.5-3 mm long, rusty-pubescent. Calyx 2-3 mm long, fused basally for 1/3-1/2 of its length, rusty-pubescent. Petals 3-4 mm long, rusty-pubescent on margins only or throughout. Stamens up to 8 mm long, filaments woolly tomentose to near the apex. Pods dark brown, (7)10-16 cm long, 2.9-4.2 cm wide, ± straight to slightly curved, rounded, obtuse or acute apically, thinly woody, dehiscing simultaneously along both margins, several-seeded; stipe 1-2 cm long. Seeds brown, 12-15 mm long, 10-13 mm wide, 4-6 mm thick, suborbicular to lenticular.
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Leaves: petiole and rachis together 6–20 cm long; pinnae 2–4 pairs; pinna rachis 8–18 cm long; leaflets (7)10–13 per pinna, (2)2.5–5(6) × 1.3–3.5 cm, similar in shape and texture to those of E. suaveolens, both surfaces completely glabrous; leaflet petiolules 3–4 mm long.
Pods (7)11–15 × 2.9–4.2 cm excluding the stipe, sometimes curved, rounded to pointed at the apex, scarcely woody, dehiscing simultaneously along both margins; stipe 1–2 cm long, ± asymmetrically placed; seeds probably potentially 8–10 × 10–12 × 4–6 mm, ± ellipsoid.
Racemes 5–10 cm long including a peduncle 0.8–1.8 cm long, the axis and peduncle densely puberulous to pubescent with appressed or shortly spreading rusty-brown hairs.
Flowers (7)9–11 mm from base of pedicel to anthers, cream to greenish-yellow; pedicel 2–3 mm long at anthesis.
Young branches and leaf rachides glabrous to shortly and thinly puberulent or pubescent.
Calyx 2–3 mm long, fused for third to half its length, rusty-brown pubescent.
Petals 3–4 mm long, pubescent particularly at their margins.
Stamen filaments with soft, irregular, spreading hairs.
Tree up to 14 m high.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 14.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal
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Images

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Distribution

Erythrophleum lasianthum world distribution map, present in Angola, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Mali, Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Singapore, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Erythrophleum lasianthum threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:494639-1
WFO ID wfo-0000194826
COL ID 3BFJ2
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Synonyms

Erythrophleum lasianthum Erythrophleum guineense var. swaziense