Fabaceae
Cynometra

Cynometra suaheliensis (Taub.) Baker f.

First published in Legum. Trop. Africa: 759 (1930)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Tropical Africa. It is a shrub or 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
Evergreen shrub or tree 5–15 m. high; bark smooth, red-grey (Graham U.767 in F.H. 2238) or rough (Tanner 3596); young branchlets puberulous or shortly pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves:stipules not apparent (? absent); petiole 2–3 mm. long, puberulous; rhachis 0.4–1.3 cm. long (–2.7 cm. on juvenile shoots), broadly channelled or almost winged above; leaflets 4, with glabrous or puberulous petiolules, asymmetrically obovate-elliptic or elliptic, 0.7–8 cm. long, 0.5–4.4 cm. wide (larger on juvenile shoots), mostly rounded at apex, not gradually tapering, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes or panicles terminal, 2–9 cm. long; axes densely puberulous; pedicels 3.5–7 mm. long, glabrous to slightly puberulous, jointed at top below flower.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers white.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Sepals 4, 3–3.5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 5, oblong-lanceolate, ± 3.5–5.5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods smooth, 4–6 cm. long, 2–3 cm. wide, on a stipe ± 0.5 cm. long, shortly (± 2–3 mm.) beaked at apex.
Habitat
? Lowland dry evergreen forest, riverine forest, coastal evergreen bushland; sea-level–150 m.
Distribution
not known elsewhere K7 T3
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/34222/9851705

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: not 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