Fabaceae
Dalbergia

Dalbergia vacciniifolia Vatke

First published in Oesterr. Bot. Z. 28: 263 (1878)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Tropical Africa. It is a climbing shrub or 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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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, Climbing/Not climbing, Shrub/Tree
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Bushy shrub or small tree, sometimes scandent, 1.3–10 m. tall; bark greyish or brown, striate, ultimately rough and flaking off.
Morphology Branches
Branchlets rather persistently and densely covered with short appressed or slightly spreading hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves (5–)6–9 cm. long; stipules linear, up to 4 mm. long, caducous but leaving a prominent scar; lateral leaflets 5–8 on either side of rhachis, oblong or oblong-elliptic, up to 1.4–2.6 cm. long, 0.5–1.3 cm. wide, rounded to slightly emarginate at either end, glabrous to thinly puberulous above, conspicuously white appressed puberulous beneath; primary lateral nerves rather few and spreading.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Panicles prolifically developed on leafy branches, laxly branched, mostly 4–9 cm. long, many-flowered; axes shortly pubescent to tomentellous; bracts ovate to oblong, up to 1.5 mm. long, early caducous; bracteoles at top of 1–3 mm. long pedicel similar.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–5 mm. long, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the lobes.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla 6–8 mm. long, white, fragrant; standard suborbicular with well-developed claw, hairy at base of blade inside; wings practically as long as standard and slightly exceeding keel.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens 9(–10), united.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit oblong-elliptic, with short stipe 3–4.5 cm. long, 0.8–1.2 cm. wide, papery, subglabrous, narrowly winged along upper side (peripheral nerve submarginal), venose, 1–2-seeded.
Figures
Fig. 20/1, 5, p. 97.
Habitat
Characteristic of coastal bushland and thicket, not infrequently on coral outcrops, also recorded from forest (? dry evergreen) and cultivated ground; 0–100 m.
Distribution
not known elsewhere K7 T3 T6 Z
[FTEA]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/34580/9871759

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

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