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Lonchocarpus katangensis De Wild. Lonchocarpus nelsii subsp. katangensis (De Wild.) Mendonça & E.P. Sousa |
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Description: | Tree or shrub up to 10 m tall. Bark red-brown, becoming greyish and cracking. Leaves 3‒5-foliolate; leaflets pubescent on upper surface, soon glabrescent, whitish-pubescent beneath, especially on the nerves. Inflorescence a panicle up to 30 cm long, usually precocious in the axils of fallen leaves, or occasionally terminal on a leafy shoot, brown-grey-tomentose. Flowers pink to blue, 10-13 mm long. Calyx densely brownish tomentose. Pods thin-textured, unwinged. | |
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Flowering time: | Sep - Nov | |
Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, DRC Katanga, Burundi, Tanzania | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
Literature: |
Brummitt, R.K., Harder, D.K., Lewis, G.P., Lock, J.M., Polhill, R.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2007). Leguminosae Subfamily Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(3) Pages 95 - 96. Lock, J.M., (2007). Leptoderris Flora Zambesiaca 3(3) Pages 95 - 96. |
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