Madagascar

Madagascar (mg)

antsiranana

antsiranana

Réserve Speciale d'Analamerana

SE of Antsiranana, S of the village of Irodo, near Antafiamantsina at the mouth of the Irodo River

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D.J. Du Puy

J. Andriantiana & O. Andrianantoanina

M 723

1994-3-17

100 -200

200

12° 41' 3.012'' S ; 49° 32' 52.008'' E

-12.68417 ; 49.54778

A thin-stemmed shrub to c. 3 m tall, pushing through dense shrubby vegetation ; leaves with 2-6 pairs of leaflets (plus a terminal leaflet) ; leaflets deep green and matt above, always deeply notched apically, paler beneath. Flowers in slender racemes from brachyblasts on the main stem, or terminal amongst the leaves, tangerine orange ; calyx green, inflated with 4 triangular teeth, the upper tooth forked ; standard recurved, orange, with a green, irregular, basal eye, with brown, appressed hairs behind ; wings appressed to the keel, tangerine orange with a slender, daeker orange tip. Pods old, spirally dehiscent

In native, dense deciduous, scrubby vegetation c. 6 m tall near top of a limestone hill with very thin humus-rich soil. [Also recorded in the Ampondrakely River valley, at c. 60 m alt, 12°41'07"S 49°33'59"E]