Fabaceae
Senegalia

Senegalia kamerunensis (Gand.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 172: 508 (2013)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Tropical Africa to Uganda. It is a climbing shrub and grows primarily in the wet 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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Scandent shrub.
Morphology Branches
Young branchlets subglabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulous, glandular or not, soon yellow-brown and then grey.
Morphology General Prickles
Prickles deflexed, scattered, arising from narrow brown longitudinal bands usually darker than the intervening ones.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves:petiole normally 1.5–3.5 cm. long, with a flat or rather convex gland 1–4.5 mm. long and 0.5–1.5 mm. wide; pinnae (10–)15–27(–36) pairs, (0.8–)1.5–4.5 cm. long; glands on rhachis between the top 3–10 pairs; leaflets linear, very numerous, 0.3–0.8 mm. wide, glabrous or very inconspicuously ciliolate, midrib nearer one margin at base.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers white, in small heads 4–8 mm. in diameter in ample panicles.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules at base of peduncles small, 0.3–0.75 mm. wide, inconspicuous, soon caducous, not subcordate at base.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx eglandular outside.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods (Fig. 15/25, p. 66) subcoriaceous, oblong, brown or pale brown, flat, dehiscent, 8–14 cm. long, 1.7–2.8 cm. wide, margins not strongly thickened.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds dark brown, smooth, elliptic, compressed, 7–11 mm. long, 5–8 mm. wide; areole small, 4–5 mm. long and 1.5–2.5 mm. wide.
Habitat
Lowland rain-forest; 1190–1220 m.
Distribution
Sierra Leone to Ubangi-Shari. French Cameroons, Belgian Congo and Uganda U4
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Guineo-Congolian forest.
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • 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/

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    • 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