Fabaceae
Newtonia

Newtonia paucijuga (Harms) Brenan

First published in Kew Bull. 10: 181 (1955)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Kenya to Tanzania. It is a 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]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/33473/2836838

Conservation
NT - near threatened
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Lake Victoria regional mosaic; forest.
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Tree up to 30 m. high, with smooth, grey to greyish-green and brown bark.
Morphology Branches
Young branchlets (when dry) densely rusty-puberulous, slowly glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-rhachis with a sessile ± depressed-hemispherical gland between each pinna-pair; glands also present between leaflet-pairs; pinnae 1–2 pairs; leaflets (1–)2–3 pairs, obovate to elliptic, 0.8–7 cm. long, 0.5–3.9 cm. wide (on saplings to 11 × 5.8 cm.), rounded or emarginate at apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Spikes about 3–10 cm. long, often paniculate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens Anthers
Anthers without an apical gland.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod 23–60 cm. long, (1.8–)2.3–3.1 cm. wide.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds about 7–8.8 cm. long, 1.7–2.3 cm. wide.
Habitat
Lowland rain-forest, riverine forest; 75–300 m.
Distribution
K7 T3 T6 T8 not known elsewhere
[FTEA]

Uses

Use
Wood
[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