Description ⁵

Slender, deciduous, small tree. Bark greyish-brown, rough and furrowed; young branchlets velvety. Leaves with 6-20 pairs of pinnae; rhachis ending in a small hook; leaflets in 12-24 pairs per pinna, slightly sickle-shaped, pointed at the apex, obovate to almost circular; petiole hairy with a gland above the middle. Flowers in fluffy, semi-spherical heads, creamy-white; stamens up to 2 cm. Pods flattened, narrow, up to 18 cm, brown.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Rob Burrett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/125670-1.jpg
2. (c) Rob Burrett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/125670-2.jpg
3. (c) Rob Burrett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/125670-4.jpg
4. (c) Rob Burrett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/125670-5.jpg
5. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/19237650

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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