Plant descriptions ¹

Tree c.10 - 25 m; wood white. Leaves with (5-) 7 - 9 alternate leaflets; petiole 12 - 30 mm long, glabrous; rachis slightly zigzag, 45 - 100 mm long; petiolules 3 - 4 mm long, glabrous; leaflets elliptic or ovate to oblong. Actinomorphic flowers, c. 2 cm long, the sepals, petals, stamen filaments and style all bright carmine pink, the anthers cream to pale grey-brouwn, the disk ovary yellow-green, not scented. Fruit subtended by the persistent sepals at the base, with a stalk c.5 - 8 mm long, samaroid, 70 - 80 mm long excluding a slender stipe 6 - 10 mm long, pale straw brown, glabrous, with a single apical seed and a broad basal wing c. 20 - 25 mm broad, one side of the wing almost straight to concave, the other rounded-convex. Seed oblong-ovate, flat, c. 17 - 20 x 9 - 11 mm.

Elevation ¹

Up to c. 300 m.

Similar species ¹

Syn. Bathiaea rubriflora Drake

Référence ¹

David Du Puy & al. 2002.- The Leguminosae of Madagascar. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Romer Rabarijaona, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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