Fabaceae
Chamaecrista

Chamaecrista paralias (Brenan) Lock

First published in Kew Bull. 43: 337 (1988)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mozambique. It is a shrub 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 Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, 1–2-flowered; pedicels 1–2 cm long in flower, longer in fruit.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers large; sepals acuminate, appressed-pubescent outside; petals yellow, 11–12 × 6.5–8 mm.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens 10; three larger than the rest.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Ovary densely and shortly appressed-pubescent; style c.3 mm long, with scattered appressed hairs; stigma terminal, fringed with hairs.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods 3.5–5 × 0.5 cm, sparsely appressed-pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds dull brown with black dots, 3 × 1.8 mm, oblong.
Morphology General Habit
Perennial erect woody herb or shrublet from a woody rootstock.
Morphology Stem
Stems perennial, terete with slight pale ridges decurrent from the stipule bases, appressed pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves paripinnate, 2.5–5.5 × 0.6–0.8 cm; stipules c.30 × 10 mm, narrowly ovate-triangular, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate, asymmetric, surfaces glabrous but appressed pubescent towards the apex, almost black above the base; petiolar gland single, dark, 0.2–0.4 mm in diameter, sessile, circular, shallowly cup-shaped; rachis crenate-crested, sparsely appressed-pubescent; leaflets in (20)30–58 pairs, 3.3–3.8 × 0.7–0.9 mm, narrowly oblong, asymmetrical, proximal side of base rounded, distal narrowly cuneate, apex rounded, often mucronate, margins ascending-ciliate, surfaces sparsely appressed-pubescent; midrib c.0.2 mm from distal margin, lateral nerves obscure.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; mangrove.
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

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]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/120958561/120980293

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