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Brachystegia taxifolia
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Chiundaponde; Mar 2008.
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Kundalila Falls; May 2001.
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Road to Mutinondo Wilderness; Oct 1996.
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| Synonyms: |
Brachystegia mimosifolia Hutch & Burtt Davy Brachystegia subfalcato-foliolata De Wild. |
| Common names: | Lukwe (Ila) Lukwe (Lenje) Lukwe (Nyanja) Ngalati (Bemba) Ngalati (Kaonde) Ngalati (Lenje) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Evergreen tree mostly up to 12 m high, sometimes forming thickets as shrubs less than 1.6 m tall. Leaves 6-12 cm long with 20−45 pairs of small leaflets, inserted up to 5 mm apart along the rhachis, narrowly oblong-falcate, 5-20 mm long, middle pairs longest; midveins eccentric. Stipules linear, up to 15 mm long, pubescent, persistent. Inflorescences of terminal and/or axillary heads up to 5 cm long, densely rusty hairy. Pods 4-13 cm long, round or bluntly pointed at the apex. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania, Iringa District |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | taxifolia: with leaves like a Taxus. |
| Habitat: | Miombo woodland, thicket. |
| Altitude range: | 1000 - 1800 m |
| Flowering time: | Sep - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | N,W,C |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Cb,Lp,N,Mc,C,Lk |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Brummitt, R.K., Chikuni, A.C., Lock, J.M. & Polhill, R.M. (2007). Leguminosae Subfamily Caesalpinioideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(2) Pages 86 - 90. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 119. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 52. Smith, P. & Allen, Q. (2004). Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Miombo Woodlands Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ISBN 1 84246 073 0 Pages 110 - 111. (Includes a picture). White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Page 306. |
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