Pseudomacrolobium quantityi
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Pseudomacrolobium mengei is a tree from the legume family in the carob subfamily from the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is the only species in the genus Pseudomacrolobium .
description
Pseudomacrolobium mengei grows as a tree up to 20 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches up to 35 centimeters.
The short-stalked leaves are pinnate in pairs with 4–6 short-stalked, glabrous and papery leaflets . The petiole is 1–2 centimeters long, the thin, stiff rhachis 4–6 centimeters and the leaflet stalks 5–7 millimeters. The egg-shaped to elliptical leaflets have entire margins and pointy to tail. The nerve is pinnate and the lateral arteries converge intramarginally.
Terminal or axillary, small panicles are formed. The stalked, five-fold flowers are orange-yellow to reddish with a double flower envelope . There are small supporting and larger ones , reddish hairy on the outside, reddish inside, almost bald prophylls . The 5 egg-shaped sepals are unequal, 3 are larger and free, the other 2 are fused together almost to the tip. 3 petals are large and short nailed with a large plate , the other 2 are small and reduced. There are 10–12 free, long stamens . The upper, hairy and short-stalked ovary is attached to the edge of the narrow, beaker -shaped and bare flower cup . The stylus is long, with small, capitate scar .
Flat and short-pointed, 12-18 centimeters long and 3-4 centimeters wide, dense and thin, reddish-haired, thin-chambered legumes are formed. They contain 1–3 ellipsoidal, about 20–28 millimeters large, somewhat flattened seeds .
Taxonomy
The first description of Basionyms Berlinia mengei was made in 1925 by Emile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman in Plantae Bequaertianae 3 (1): 143. The preparation of the new genus Pseudomacrolobium and demoted to Pseudomacrolobium mengei was made in 1952 by Lucien Hauman Leon in Bull Séances Inst Roy... Colon. Bel 23: 477.
use
The leaves can be used as fish poison . The reddish wood is used locally.
literature
- ON Allen, Ethel K. Allen: The Leguminosae. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1981, ISBN 0-299-08400-0 , p. 554.
Web links
- Pseudomacrolobium mengei at Botanic Garden Meise, The Digital Flora of Central Africa.
Individual evidence
- ^ HD Neuwinger: African Ethnobotany. Chapman & Hall, 1996, ISBN 3-8261-0077-8 , p. 897.