Fabaceae
Scorodophloeus

Scorodophloeus torrei Lock

First published in Kew Bull. 61: 257 (2006)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mozambique. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub, or tree to 20 m; bark (from photograph with Torre & Correia 14585) pale, smooth on main branches.
Morphology Twigs
Young twigs terete, red-brown pubescent, glabrescent; older twigs grey, lenticellate.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves paripinnate, 30–70 mm long, 10–16-foliolate; stipules c.3 mm long, very narrowly triangular to linear, red-brown pubescent, caducous; petiole and rachis pubescent, ridged; leaflets alternate (the basal and upper pair sometimes opposite), 11–26 × 6–12 mm, asymmetric, rhombic-ovate, apex obtuse or rounded to emarginate, base asymmetric, proximal side rounded, distal side cuneate, glabrous; midrib subcentral, venation brochidodromous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences simply racemose, terminal on young flush growth, 7–10-flowered; bracts and bracteoles 3–4 mm long, linear-spathulate, caducous at time of anthesis; pedicels 4–7 mm long, sparsely puberulous below.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Hypanthium
Hypanthium 3–4 mm long, narrowly funnel-shaped, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Sepals 4, 4 × 1.2 mm, narrowly triangular, reflexed at anthesis.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 4(5), narrowly obovate, tapering to a basal claw, 2 broader 10–11 × 3.5 mm, 2 narrower 10–11 × 2.5 mm.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens 9; filaments 10–12 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods c.7.5 × 4 cm, broadly oblong, somewhat asymmetric, glabrous, with narrow flanges along each side of the dorsal suture, elastically dehiscent.
[FZ]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/149257100/153685894

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

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
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/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