Peltophorum africanum Sond.

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Zambezian woodland, Zambezian bushland and thicket, Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone; bushland and thicket

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Tree

Vernacular

African Wattle, Weeping Wattle

Leguminosae, R.K. Brummitt, A.C. Chikuni, J.M. Lock and R.M. Polhill. Flora Zambesiaca 3:2. 2007

Morphology General Habit

Small tree 3–9(14) m high, with a spreading crown.

Morphology Stem

Young stems with rusty-brown to greyish, ± spreading tomentum or puberulence, sometimes also with stalked, swollen-headed glands, particularly on saplings [see note].

Morphology Leaves

Leaves: petiole and rachis together 4–28 cm, densely brown-pubescent to -tomentose, sometimes with glands; pinnae 4–13(17) pairs; pinna rachis 1.5–8(10.5) cm; leaflets 6–28 pairs per pinna, (2)4–9(12) ×(1)1.5–3(4) mm, oblong or occasionally ovate-oblong, asymmetrical at the base, rounded to subacute at the apex, and mucronate; both surfaces appressed-pubescent; stipules up to 1.4 cm long, linear-subulate with up to 7 linear, alternate, lateral appendages to 6 mm long, the whole usually very quickly caducous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers in fairly dense, terminal and axillary racemes up to 24 cm long, usually grouped at the ends of branches to form a pseudopanicle, the axes densely brown-pubescent; bracts up to 7 × 1 mm, linear-lanceolate, caducous; pedicels 3–8(10 in fruit) mm excluding the receptacle.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Sepals (4)5–6(7) mm long, brown-pubescent except on the scarious margins, ± reflexed in flowering.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals 10–14(17) mm long, obtriangular-spathulate with a short claw, or the upper one somewhat shorter and with a broader and stouter claw, the distal margins all ± undulate, all yellow.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens

Stamens 8–13 mm, shorter than the petals; anthers 1.5–2.75 mm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary

Ovary appressed brown-pubescent, often ± velutinous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods 4–9 × 1.4–2.6 cm, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, the wings down each margin 3–6 mm broad, the whole densely puberulent, or glabrescent at maturity, indehiscent; seeds 1 or 2, 9–12 × 5–8 × 1 mm, ± oblong, elongated longitudinally in the pod, with the hilum at one end.

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/47608213/47611047

Conservation

LC - least concern

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