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Unarmed trees with rusty-tomentose young shoots. Stipules very small, caducous. Leaves 2-pinnate; specialised glands on petiole or rhachis 0. Leaflets alternate. Inflorescence of small flowers in an elongated, pendulous, catkin-like spike, usually aggregated into a panicle. Calyx lobes 5, ± connate below. Petals equal, 5. Stamens 10. Pod indehiscent, elliptic, flattened, coriaceous. Derivation of name: After Joseph Burke Worldwide: 1 species in western and southern Africa Zambia: 1 taxon. |
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| africana Hook. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Nw,N,E,C,Lk,S,W | Description, Image |
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