Lepiderema melanorrhachis Merr. & L.M.Perry

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Lepiderema

Characteristics

Tree, tall, slender. Flowering branchlets 5-9 mm thick, slightly rough, very sparsely hirsute, black. Leaves 3-5-jugate; peduncle 2.2-7.8 cm long; rachis 4.5-14.2 cm long, shortly hirsute. Leaflets elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 4.7-14.3 by 2.4-5.7 cm; both surfaces glabrous except for the sericeous midrib; venation almost flat above; nerves curving towards margin, indistinctly joined. Inflorescences axillary to ramiflorous; rachis 4-9.5 cm long, hirsute; cymules (l-)3-7-flowered; pedicel c. 2 mm long, glabrous to sparsely hairy with scale-like hairs, black; part above abscission zone c. 1 mm long. Flowers unknown. Sepals elliptic to sub-orbicular, glabrous, outer two c. 1 by 0.75 mm, inner three c. 1.5 by 1 mm. Fruits obovoid, 10-12 by 9-10 mm, not lobed, rough; stipe 3-4 mm long; wall thin. Seeds obovoid, c. 4.5 by 3 mm, only young ones seen.
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Distribution

Lepiderema melanorrhachis world distribution map, present in Kenya and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:783448-1
WFO ID wfo-0000446235
COL ID 6P9MM
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Synonyms

Lepiderema melanorrhachis