Brachystegia taxifolia Harms

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Chiundaponde; Mar 2008.
Photo: Mike Bingham

Kundalila Falls; May 2001.
Photo: Mike Bingham

Road to Mutinondo Wilderness; Oct 1996.
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Path to Chisanga Falls, Nyika National Park

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Kaperekeza road near path to Chisanga Falls, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms:	Brachystegia mimosifolia Hutch & Burtt Davy Brachystegia subfalcato-foliolata De Wild.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Evergreen tree mostly up to 12 m high, sometimes forming thickets as shrubs less than 1.6 m tall. Leaves 6-12 cm long with 20−45 pairs of small leaflets, inserted up to 5 mm apart along the rhachis, narrowly oblong-falcate, 5-20 mm long, middle pairs longest; midveins eccentric. Stipules linear, up to 15 mm long, pubescent, persistent. Inflorescences of terminal and/or axillary heads up to 5 cm long, densely rusty hairy. Pods 4-13 cm long, round or bluntly pointed at the apex.
Type location:	Tanzania, Iringa District
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Derivation of specific name:	taxifolia: with leaves like a Taxus.
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Flowering time:	Sep - Oct
Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.
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Literature:	Brummitt, R.K., Chikuni, A.C., Lock, J.M. & Polhill, R.M. (2007). Leguminosae Subfamily Caesalpinioideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(2) Pages 86 - 90. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 119. Meerts, P. & Hasson, M. (2016). Arbres et arbustes du Haut-Katanga Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique Pages 292 - 293. (Includes a picture). Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 52. Smith, P. & Allen, Q. (2004). Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Miombo Woodlands Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ISBN 1 84246 073 0 Pages 110 - 111. (Includes a picture). White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Page 306.

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