Fabaceae
Angylocalyx

Angylocalyx braunii Harms

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 307 (1910)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Tropical Africa. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/34787/9884603

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Small straggling tree 6–10.5 m. tall, with smooth brown to greenish-grey bark, the vegetative parts glabrous or nearly so.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3–7-foliolate, up to 20–33 cm. long; stipules subulate-caudate, up to 1.5–2.5 mm. long, caducous; lateral leaflets ovate-elliptic, (5.5–)8–14 cm. long, (3–)4–7 cm. wide, smaller than terminal leaflet, caudate-acuminate; primary lateral nerves 5–8 on either side, curved-ascending, looped well within the margin; venation slightly prominent on both surfaces.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes produced severally from knobs on the old wood, sometimes 1–2-branched, 3–10 cm. long, with rather numerous fairly closely arranged flowers, shortly hairy; bracts subulate to linear, 1–2 mm. long; pedicels 3–7 mm. long, jointed, in upper half and with 2 very small bracteoles near the base.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx and hypanthium together 7.5–10 mm. long, not angled at the junction, minutely but densely brown velutinous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla white or cream to pale pink or mauvish, 1.4–1.8 cm. long; wing- and keel-petals lightly coherent at least in young flowers.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit 10–20 cm. long, 3–6-seeded, covered by a very short brown velvety tomentum.
Figures
Fig. 5, p. 37.
Habitat
Understorey of lowland rain-forest, dry evergreen and riverine forest; up to 800 m.
Distribution
not known elsewhere K7 T3 T6
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; forest
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub/Tree
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0