Fabaceae
Lonchocarpus

Lonchocarpus madagascariensis (Vatke) Dunn ex Polhill

First published in Kew Bull. 23: 487 (1969)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania (Zanzibar), Mayotte, Madagascar. It is a climbing shrub or liana 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
Woody climber or in Madagascar ? a shrub or small tree (fide Baron).
Morphology Branches
Branchlets with scattered brownish hairs, soon glabrescent, conspicuously lenticellate.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 12–25 cm. long; stipules linear or lanceolate, 2–3 mm. long, striate, subpersistent; stipels setaceous, 1–2 mm. long; lateral leaflets in 2–4 pairs, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 5–9 cm. long, 1.8–4.5 cm. wide, markedly acuminate, broadly cuneate to shortly rounded at base, membranous, subglabrous or thinly puberulous beneath, with 6–10 fine curved-ascending lateral nerves on either side and fine laxly reticulate venation.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Panicles terminal and axillary, with numerous slender spreading-ascending primary branches, 12–28 cm. long, rather laxly many-flowered, shortly hairy; bracts lanceolate, up to 4 mm. long, early caducous; bracteoles at top of the 3–5 mm. long pedicel, up to 1.5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 3–4 mm. long, appressed puberulous; lateral lobes rounded, ± 1 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla 8–11 mm. long, purple or (in Madagascar) reddish; standard suborbicular, with small calluses at base of the blade inside, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit linear-oblong, rounded at apex, shortly stipitate, thickened and slightly sinuate along the margins, 6–7 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, chartaceous, subglabrous, venose, 4–7-seeded.
Habitat
Near sea-shore
Distribution
NW. Madagascar P
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

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]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/165198983/166513561

Conservation
NT - near threatened
[IUCN]

Uses

Use
Toxins
[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

  • 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