Fabaceae
Afzelia

Afzelia peturei De Wild.

First published in Bull. Séances Inst. Roy. Colon. Belge 6: 203 (1935)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is DR Congo to Zambia. It is a tree 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: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/137522712/138014731

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

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

Morphology General Habit
Tree to 10(20) m.
Morphology Branches
Branchlets glabrous, brown, cracking longitudinally.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves paripinnate, in 4–6 pairs, glabrous; petiole 2–2.5 cm long; rachis 7–14 cm long; petiolules 2–3 mm long; leaflets somewhat shiny, 7.7–5.8 × 3–3.9 cm, ovate to elliptic, apex bluntly acuminate, base rounded to slightly cordate, glabrous, with a gland beneath near the base on the proximal side; midrib prominent beneath, impressed above; venation more prominent above than beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence axis branched, puberulous. Young inflorescences and flowers unknown.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit brown, c.10.5 × 5 cm, reniform, apiculate, hard, woody.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds shiny black, c.2 cm long, 1 cm in diameter, ellipsoidal; aril orange, bilobed, the longest lobe almost as long as the seed.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian forest
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
[ILDIS]

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

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • 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 Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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