Erythrina schliebenii Harms

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

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

Morphology General Habit

Tree 5–10 m. tall.

Morphology Leaves

Terminal leaflet obtrapeziform, 10·5 cm. long, 14 cm. wide, ± truncate at the apex, incised at the actual apex, the incision hidden by overlapping lobes of the leaf, subcordate at the base; lateral leaflets ovate-rhomboid, 11–15 cm. long, 9–13 cm. wide, narrowed to a retuse apex, broadly rounded and slightly subcordate at the base; all leaflets with irregular almost crenate margins, glabrous above and almost so beneath save for sparse hairs on main nerves; venation prominently raised and reticulate beneath; petiole 20·5 cm. long, sparsely prickly; rhachis 6·5 cm. long with 1 or 2 prickles; petiolules 7–10 mm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences robust, dense, many-flowered, densely floccose tomentose, the tomentum easily removable; rhachis 20 cm. or more long; peduncle 35–40 cm. long; pedicels 2–4(or fide Harms 6–10) mm. long; bracts lanceolate, forming a deciduous tuft at the end of the rhachis.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx in bud obliquely tubular, sometimes curved, later deeply slit on one side to form a sheath, densely granularly stellate tomentose; tube 2·5–3 cm. long; 2 upper teeth linear-filiform, ± 1 cm. long; laterals similar, 7–8 mm. long; lowest shorter and broader, thickened, 4 mm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard “flame-red”, short-clawed, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 5·5–7 cm. long, 1·8–2·5 cm. wide, obtuse; keel and wings ± equal, a sixth to a quarter the length of the standard.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary

Ovary stipitate, linear, densely tomentose.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods unknown.

Habitat

Light woodland; 240 m.

Distribution

T8 not known elsewhere

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Insufficiently known

Ecology

Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone ; woodland.

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Tree