Madagascar

Madagascar (mg)

N Madagascar, Antsiranana (Diego Suarez) Province, Ankarana Massif, near Route Nationale 6, c. 10 km north of Ambilomagodro

fl

2 Du Puy

Lewis G., Schrire B.

m 560

1992-11-17

200

12° 19' 0.012'' S ; 49° 19' 59.988'' E

-12.31667 ; 49.33333

Low-branched, deciduous tree c. 11 m tall; DBH c. 40 cm; bark smooth with small white lenticels, grey-brown, sometimes breaking and cracking. Leaves almost full-sized on plants without flowers. Flowers on branches with very juvenile foliage, the young shoots green with a dense brown indumentum; twigs dark greenish brown with white lenticels. Flowers in pseudoracemes, c. 15 mm long, lilac pink, the standard with a small greenish basal eye. Calyx purple with 3 long lower teeth and 2 short upper teeth separated by a broad space (old pods and seeds on the ground)