A new generic system for the pantropical Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae)
Author
Gagnon, Edeline
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3212-9688
Institut de recherche en biologie vegetale and Departement de sciences biologiques, Universite de Montreal, H 1 X 2 B 2, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
edeline.gagnon@gmail.com
Author
Bruneau, Anne
Institut de recherche en biologie vegetale and Departement de sciences biologiques, Universite de Montreal, H 1 X 2 B 2, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Author
Hughes, Colin E.
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zuerich, 8008, Zuerich, Switzerland
Author
de Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, BR 116, Km 03, Campus Universitario, Feira de Santana 44031 - 460, Bahia, Brasil
Author
Lewis, Gwilym P.
Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW 9 3 AB, United Kingdom
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PhytoKeys
2016
2016-10-12
71
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.71.9203
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.71.9203
1314-2003-71-1
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160340
17.
Stuhlmannia Taub., Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost.-Afr. C: 201. 1895
Figs 27F-G
, 28
Type
.
Stuhlmannia moavi
Taub.
Description.
Unarmed trees, to 25 m tall; bark brown, fissured and fibrous; young shoots eglandular or with small red glands. Stipules not seen. Leaves alternate, pinnate or bipinnate and then ending in a pair of pinnae, (1.5-) 5-11 (- 20 cm) long, pinnae in (1-) 2-10 pairs per leaf, with reddish glands; leaflets in 3-12 pairs per pinna, opposite to sub-opposite, elliptic, 7-75 (- 120)
x
3-30 (- 60) mm, obtuse at the base and apex, glabrous, eglandular or with red glands on the lower surface. Inflorescence a 2-11 cm long, terminal or axillary raceme; pedicels 3-13 mm long. Flowers bisexual, sub-actinomorphic; calyx comprising a hypanthium and 5 sepals, these 5-6.5 mm long, valvate in bud, caducous; petals 5, free, yellow, the median petal with red markings, obovate, 9-12
x
3-6 mm, apex rounded, median petal slightly smaller than the others; stamens 10, free, 5.5-8 mm long, filaments pubescent; ovary stipitate, with red sessile glands, glabrous to pubescent. Fruit a flattened, oblong, woody, elliptic pod with an acuminate apex, 4.5-6
x
1.5-2 cm, dehiscing along both sutures, valves twisting, glabrous to thinly puberulous. Seeds flattened, sub-circular to ovate, c. 10-13
x
8-9 mm, brown.
Geographic distribution.
A monospecific genus in E Africa (Kenya and Tanzania) and N Madagascar.
Habitat.
Seasonally dry tropical forest, woodland on limestone and in riverine forest.
Etymology
.
Named by Taubert for the German naturalist Franz Ludwig Stuhlmann (1863-1928).
References.
Brenan (1967
: 45-47);
Capuron (1967
, under
Caesalpinia insolita
);
Lewis (1996)
;
Du Puy and Rabevohitra (2002
: 48, 50, under
Caesalpinia insolita
);
Lemmens (2010)
.
Figure 28.
Stuhlmannia moavi
Taub.
A
inflorescence and pinnate leaf
B
flower bract
C
flower
D
sepal
E
median petal
F
upper lateral petal
G
lower lateral petal
H
flower with sepals and petals removed from one side to show arrangement of stamens
I
stamen
J
lower portion of stamen filament, seen from inside the flower
K
lower portion of stamen filament seen from outside the flower
L
hypathium after fall of sepals, petals and stamens
M
gynoecium,
N
stigma and apical portion of style
O
detail of outer surface of ovary showing sessile glands
P
fruit
Q
seed
R
transverse section of seed.
A
from
Tanner
3167
B, P-R
from
Tanner
3724
C-O
from
Tanner
2467. Drawn by E. M. Stones, originally published in
Hooker's
Icones Plantarum, Tab. 3626 (1967).