- Family: Moringaceae Martinov
- Genus: Moringa Adans.
Moringa longituba Engl.
- Genus: Moringa Adans.
This species is accepted, and its native range is E. & S. Ethiopia to N. Kenya.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Moringaceae, Bernard Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1986
- Habit
- Shrub or subshrub, often with a single slender brittle stem or several virgate stems 0.9-3 m. tall, but some flowering shoots may be as little as 10 cm. long, grey pilose when young but soon glabrous; bark purple-brown or dark grey, finely longitudinally ridged when dry; tuber up to the size of a rugby football, about 30 cm. below ground.
- Leaves
- Leaves (1(cult.) -)2-3-pinnate, 15-40 cm. long, with 2 pairs of pinnae and with 3-5 leaflets, densely pubescent when very young, later glabrescent; leaflets oblong, elliptic or obovate, 2.5-6(-7 cult.) cm. long, 1.5-4.5(-5.2 cult.) cm. wide, rounded or emarginate but apiculate at the apex, cuneate, rounded or subcordate at the base, glabrous or finely puberulous, the venation ± prominent beneath; petioles up to 2.5 cm. long.
- Flowers
- Flowers in sparsely pilose inflorescences appearing when the plant is leafless; rachis 4 cm. long; bracts oblong, 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, obtuse, sparsely pilose; stalks elongate, cylindrical, articulate, 0.5-2 cm. long, true pedicels short.
- Receptacle
- Receptacle tubular, 1.3-3 cm. long, 2 mm. wide.
- Perianth
- Sepals rose, linear-oblong, 0.9-1.2 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, deflexed, pubescent at the apex; petals paler rose to bright pink, often white at base or yellowish, linear, 1.2-1.5 cm. long, 3 mm. wide.
- Stamens
- Stamens attached to margin of receptacle on very narrow annulus, filaments 1.2 cm. long; anthers yellow-green, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; staminodes 5, episepalous, ± as long as stamen-filaments.
- Pistil
- Ovary 5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, glabrous, the stipe 5 mm. long; style white, filiform, up to 2 cm. long in young fruit but mostly as long as staminodes.
- Fruits
- Pods purple-brown with bloom or purple-striped, 13.5-30 cm. long, 1.2-1.4(-2.1) cm. wide, each valve with 2 grooves.
- Seeds
- Seeds yellow-green or colourless, the body 1-1.3 cm. long, 8-9 mm. wide, transversely ridged and pitted, the wings 2-3 cm. long overall, separated by wide sinuses at the extremities.
- Figures
- Fig. 2/5, 6, 10.
- Habitat
- Open Commiphora thicket, Commiphora-Acacia bushland with scattered larger trees often on soils over limestone; 210-750 m.
- Distribution
- has been cultivated in K6 at Ol Lorgosailic [Orgasalik] K1
Distribution
Synonyms
Other Data
Moringa longituba Engl. appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (5 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gillett, J.B. [13444], Kenya | 23719.000 | |||
Bally, P.R.O. [9065], Kenya | 23718.000 | |||
Ellis, P.E. [342], Ethiopia | K000569342 | |||
Burger, W. [3285], Ethiopia | K000569446 | |||
Burger, W. [3285], Ethiopia | K000569351 |
Bibliography
First published in Annuario Reale Ist. Bot. Roma 9: 251 (1904)
Accepted by
- Edwards, S., Tadesse, M., Demissew, S. & Hedberg, I. (eds.) (2000). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 2(1): 1-532. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
- Thulin, M. (ed.) (1993). Flora of Somalia 1: 1-493. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Verdcourt, B. (1986). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Moringaceae: 1- 11.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Thulin, M. (ed.) (1993). Flora of Somalia 1: 1-493. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Verde. in Kew Bulletin 40: 21 (1985).
- Burger, Fam. Fl. Pl. Eth., fig. 19/2 (1967).
- Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 326 (1961).
- Verdc. in Kew Bulletin 13: 385 (1959).
- Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux.) p. 162 (1954).
- Chiov. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1917: 27 (1917).
- Engl. in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 9: 251 (1902).
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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