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<big>''[[Dalbergia chapelieri]]'' Baill.</big>
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:Protologue: Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 436 (1884).
== Synonyms ==
*''Dalbergia pterocarpiflora'' Baker (1890).
== Vernacular names ==
*Hazovola à grandes feuilles (Fr).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Deciduous shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 15(–18) m tall; bole up to 60 cm in diameter; outer bark thin, with lenticels, whitish to greyish, inner bark brownish; young branches glabrous. *Leaves arranged spirally, imparipinnately compound with (7–)11–15(–19) leaflets; stipules small, caducous; petiole and rachis usually glabrous; petiolules 1.5–4 mm long; leaflets alternate, obovate to elliptical or oblong-elliptical, 2–6 cm × 1–3 cm, leathery, glabrous. *Inflorescence a terminal or axillary panicle 5–10 cm long, short-hairy. *Flowers bisexual, papilionaceous, 8–12 mm long; pedicel 1.5–4(–5) mm long; calyx campanulate, 6–9 mm long, reddish to purple, lobes longer than tube, upper lobes fused; corolla whitish, often reddish tinged, with broadly elliptical standard and clawed wings and keel; stamens 10, fused into a tube, but free in upper part; ovary superior, with distinct stipe at base, style slender, c. 2 mm long. *Fruit a flat, elliptical to oblong pod 5–8(–13) cm × 1.5–3 cm, with stipe 3–5 mm long, glabrous, reddish brown, finely reticulately veined, indehiscent, 1–3-seeded.
== Other botanical information ==
== Author(s) ==
* R.H.M.J. Lemmens , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands
== Correct citation of this article ==
Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2007. '''Dalbergia chapelieri''' Baill. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.