Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details

This shrub has leaves (~4 cm long) made up of many small (~4 mm long) sword-shaped leaflets. Individual flowers are quite small which stamens and carpels that stick out of the petals. Clusters of these flowers give the plant a pom-pom look. The fruit is a brown sickle-shaped seed pod, about 4-6 cm long and 1 cm wide, containing 15-20 seeds.
(Flora of Madagascar Website www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=12&taxon_id=250071679)

Geographic Distribution: This plant is endemic to the Comoros and Mascarene islands, where it’s found in dry hillsides up to 1000 meters.
(www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=12&taxon_id=250071679)

There are only six species in this genus, all are found in Madagascar, the Commoros and Mascarene Islands.

LUCKOW, M., AND D. D. PUY. 2000. A New Species of Gagnebina (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) from Madagascar. Novon 10: 220-223.

We currently have 7 herbarium specimens for Gagnebina pterocarpa in our collection. Click on any specimen below to view the herbarium sheet data.

• 011518 - collected by David H. Lorence in 1991
• 021036 - collected by David H. Lorence in 1995
• 068047 - collected by David H. Lorence in 2012
• Unassigned - collected by Tim Flynn in 2012
• S063097 - collected by Tim Flynn in 2012
• S063101 - collected by Tim Flynn in 2012
• 065234 - collected by Tim Flynn in 2012