Fabaceae
Baikiaea

Baikiaea ghesquiereana J.Léonard

First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 21: 130 (1951)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania. It is a tree 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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/32900/2826772

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

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

Morphology General Habit
Tree; branchlets and leaves glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves:petiole with rhachis 7–19 cm. long; petiolules 5–9 mm. long; leaflets 6–8, opposite or subopposite, coriaceous, elliptic, lanceolate, or sometimes ovate-elliptic, 7–19 cm. long, 3.2–6.8 cm. wide, gradually subacuminate at apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes (only young ones known):peduncle with axis up to 14 cm. long, like the bracts and bracteoles very densely dark-brown- or red-brown-villous outside; bracts 10–16 mm. long, 12–15 mm. wide; bracteoles 9–13 mm. long, 5–8 mm. wide.
Morphology General Buds
Buds very densely red-brown-villous outside.
Note
Open flowers and pods not yet known.
Habitat
Said to be in open “miombo” (Brachystegia) woodland; ± 300 m.
Distribution
T8 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, 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

  • 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

  • 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