Fabaceae
Anthonotha

Anthonotha noldeae (Rossbach) Exell & Hillc.

First published in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 29: 39 (1955)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Cameroon to Tanzania and Angola. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Tree up to 15–25 m. high, not buttressed, with smooth yellowish-grey bark scaling off in patches; crown dense, round; young bran.chlets densely brown-pubescent; older twigs glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves:petiole with rhachis 7.5–15(–20) cm. long, brown-pubescent; leaflets in 4–6 pairs, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 5–12(–17.5) cm. long, 1.2–3(–6.9) cm. wide, acuminate, rounded to cuneate-rounded at base, glabrous above, beneath with a very dense minute appressed indumentum concealing the surface and with a silky copper-coloured sheen; lateral nerves 12–18 on each side of the midrib.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Hypanthium
Hypanthium glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 5, one of them much larger than the rest and deeply bilobed; 4 very reduced.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens (4–)5 large, well-developed; 4 minute, staminodial.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods elliptic to irregularly oblong, 5–9.5 cm. long, 4–5 cm. wide, densely dark brown-tomentellous; obliquely transverse nerves numerous and raised.
Figures
Fig. 33.
Habitat
Riverine or upland rain-forest; 1520–2130 m.
Distribution
T4
[FTEA]

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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian forest, Afromontane forest
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
[ILDIS]

Uses

Use
Wood
[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/

  • 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

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • 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