Fabaceae
Cynometra

Cynometra greenwayi Brenan

First published in Kew Bull. 17: 209 (1963)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Kenya. It is a tree and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Tree up to about 10 m. high, with flaking grey-brown bark; young branchlets glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves:stipules very small and very soon falling away; petiole 1–3 mm. long, puberulous above; rhachis 0.5–2 cm. long, channelled above; leaflets 4, with petiolules 0.5–1 mm. long below the proximal side of the leaflet-base, ± coriaceous, obovate or obovate-elliptic, 1.1–10.5 cm. long, 0.8–6.5 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse but not gradually tapering at apex, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Panicles axillary or falsely terminal, 2.5–7 cm. long; axes very minutely and inconspicuously puberulous (actual hairs only visible with a magnification of at least × 20); pedicels 7–12 mm. long, glabrous, jointed at top below flower.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers white, sweetly scented.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Sepals 4, 4.5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 4–5, obovate-oblanceolate, 5.5–6 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Immature pods ± 5.7 cm. long and 2.8 cm. wide, on a stipe ± 1 cm. long, and with an apical beak ± 0.5 cm. long.
Habitat
“Common with Ehretia in sand-dunes with scattered coral-rock outcrops”; 8 m.
Distribution
not known elsewhere K7
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; scrub forest
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
[ILDIS]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/144066027/144066053

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

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]

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

  • 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