Fabaceae
Xylia

Xylia mendoncae Torre

First published in Contr. Conhecimento Fl. Mocambique 2: 94 (1954)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mozambique. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Leguminosae, J.P.M. Brenan. Flora Zambesiaca 3:1. 1970

Morphology General Habit
Small tree 4-7 m. high; branchlets, petioles and leaf-rhachides glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves with petiole 4-6 cm. long; pinna-rhachis 6-10 cm. long; leaflets in (3)4-5 pairs, mostly 3-6 x 1·5-2·5 cm. (smaller ones may occur with the inflorescences) elliptic to somewhat ovate- or obovate-elliptic, usually rounded to rounded-cuneate at the base, glabrous beneath except on the midrib and margins.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers 6-7 mm. long, sessile or almost so (pedicel to c. 0·25 mm.). Flowers in heads c. 1·5 cm. in diam. on supra-axillary subglabrous peduncles (2)3·5-8 cm. long; interfloral bracts oblanceolate, 2-3 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods 11-12 x 3-3·5 cm., glabrous.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
[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/34523/120980008

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[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

    • '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