Fabaceae
Xylia

Xylia torreana Brenan

First published in Kew Bull. 12: 359 (1957 publ. 1958)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical Africa to NE. Limpopo. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
[ILDIS]

Leguminosae, J.P.M. Brenan. Flora Zambesiaca 3:1. 1970

Morphology General Habit
Tree up to 15 m. high, with rough brown to grey bark; branchlets, petioles, leaf-rhachides and peduncles densely brown-pubescent or tomentellous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves with petioles 2-7 cm. long; pinna-rhachides 5-16 cm. long; leaflets in 4-6 pairs, (3·5)4-7·5 x 2-4·2 cm., narrowly ovate or rarely narrowly elliptic, rounded or often slightly cordate at the base, tomentose on both surfaces when young, the upper becoming glabrous, the lower ± densely pubescent at maturity.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers in heads c. 1·5 cm. in diam., on axillary peduncles 2-3·5 cm. long; pedicels c. 1·5 mm. long, appressed-pubescent with hairs longer and denser than on the calyx; interfloral bracts 2-3 mm. long, spathulate. Flowers 4·5 (male)-6 (hermaphrodite) mm. long, yellow.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod 9-14 x 3·2-8 cm., brown-tomentellous at least in part.
[FZ]

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/168998334/169318242

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • 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