Brachystegia bakeriana
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Photo: Patricia Bingham
Mongu-Sesheke Rd, Litoya; Aug 2006.
Photo: Mike Bingham
Kataba; Jul 1991.
Photo: Mike Bingham
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Mostly seen as a thicket forming shrub up to 6 m tall at roadsides, but can grow taller in open woodland. Leaves 1.5−4(7) cm long (compare Brachystegia spiciformis). Leaflets in 2−4(6) contiguous or overlapping pairs, increasing in size distally, dull and glaucous in appearance. |
| Type location: |
Angola, Benguela |
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| Derivation of specific name: | bakeriana: After John Gilbert Baker FRS (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920), English botanist. |
| Habitat: | Woodland on Kalahari sand. |
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| Flowering time: | Jul - Sep |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola and Zambia. |
| Provinces: | CU,MO |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Brummitt, R.K., Chikuni, A.C., Lock, J.M. & Polhill, R.M. (2007). Leguminosae Subfamily Caesalpinioideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(2) Page 104. Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22 SANBI, Pretoria Page 80. |
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