Family:
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus:
Peltophorum (Vogel) Benth.

Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) Backer ex K.Heyne

This species is accepted, and its native range is Indo-China to N. Australia. It is used as animal food and a medicine, has environmental uses and social uses and for fuel and food.

[ILDIS]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
Vernacular
Calice, Copper-Pod, Golden Flamboyante, Iya-vakai, Peltophorum, Yellow Flamboyant, Yellow Flame, Yellow Flame Tree, Yellow Poinciana

[FZ]

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

Morphology General Habit
Tree up to 17 m high.
Morphology Stem
Young stems shortly brown-tomentose, glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves: petiole and rachis together up to 35 cm, brown-tomentose when young; pinnae 7–14 pairs; pinna rachis 4–13 cm; leaflets (5)9–17(20) pairs per pinna, (5)8–21 × (2)4–8(9) mm, ± oblong or oblong-rhombic, very asymmetrical at the base, rounded and usually emarginate (never mucronate) at the apex; both surfaces pubescent to glabrous; stipules simple and inconspicuous or apparently absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence like that of P. africanum but usually longer and with more branches; pedicels 4–7(10 in fruit) mm, approximately as long as the calyx.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Sepals (5)6–8(10) mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 13–23 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary as in P. africanum.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods (4)5–12 × 1.6–3.2 cm, narrowly elliptic to oblong; seeds 1–3(?4).

[UPFC]
Distribution
Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 800–1500 m a.s.l. Cultivated in Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Tolima.
Habit
Tree.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: shrubland, artificial - terrestrial.

[CPLC]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 800 - 1500 m.; Andes.
Morphology General Habit
Árbol

[UNAL]

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular
acacia

[FTEA]

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

Note
With 10–19 pairs of leaflets per pinna which are emarginate and without a mucro at apex and ± 0.8–3 cm. long and 0.35-0.9 cm. wide, small unbranched stipules, racemes aggregated into a terminal panicle, and pedicels at flowering time at most as long as the calyx.

[ILDIS]
Use
Chemical products, Domestic, Environmental, Forage, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Wood

[UPFC]
Use Animal Food
Used as animal food.
Use Environmental
Environmental uses.
Use Fuel
Used for fuels.
Use Food
Used for food.
Use Materials
Used as material.
Use Medicines
Medical uses.
Use Social
Social uses.

Native to:

Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Burkina, Burundi, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Kenya, Laccadive Is., Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Maldives, Marianas, Mozambique, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Pakistan, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zaïre

Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) Backer ex K.Heyne appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 3, 1994 MACQUEEN, D.J. [595], Costa Rica K000724313 No
Sep 1, 1980 Thwaites [3815] K000756941 isotype Yes
Owens, S.J., USA 54095.000 No
Teysmann, J.E. [s.n.], Sumatera K000756948 Unknown type material Yes
Teysmann, J.E. [s.n.], Sumatera K000756949 Unknown type material Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K000756946 Yes
Pierre, L. [6050], Vietnam Peltophorum ferrugineum K000756944 Yes

First published in Nutt. Pl. Ned.-Ind., ed. 2, 2: 755 (1927)

Accepted by

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  • Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.
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Kew Backbone Distributions

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  • Figueiredo, E., Paiva, J., Stévart, T., Oliveira, F. & Smith, G.F. (2011). Annotated catalogue of the flowering plants of São Tomé and Príncipe. Bothalia, A Journal of Botanical Research 41: 41-82.
  • Fosberg, F.R., Sachet, M.-H., Oliver, R. (1979). A geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae. Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 15: 41-295.
  • Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
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  • Lock, J.M. & Heald, J. (1994). Legumes of Indo-China a check-list: 1-164. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
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  • Smith, A.C. (1985). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 3: 1-758. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
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