A systematic treatment of the genus Dalbergia for the Flora Malesiana (FM) region is presented. The treatment includes a genus description, two keys to the species, an enumeration of the species present in the FM-area with names and synonyms, details of distribution, habitat and ecology and where needed some notes, three new species (D. minutiflora, D. pilosa, D. ramosii For the Flora Malesiana treatment we recognise 33 species. In the following sections a genus description, two keys to the Malesian species, notes on species and typification, one new name and the description of three new species will be given.
DalbergiaDalbergia L.f. (1781) Trees, erect or scandent shrubs to woody climbers, sometimes spiny, with or without red sap. Leaves imparipinnate, rarely unifoliolate; stipules present, caducous, very rarely persistent; stipellae absent; leaflets usually alternate. Inflorescences axillary, terminal or raminascent, racemes or panicles. Bracts subpersistent or caducous. Bracteoles present, caducous or (sub)-persistent. Calyx bell-shaped, bilabiate, upper lip 2-toothed, lower lip 3-toothed, median (lowest) tooth usually longest. Corolla: standard without callosities; wings usually sculpted, adhering to the keel petals; keel petals slightly shorter than or as long as the wings. Stamens 9 -10, monadelphous, than usually an open sheath, or diadelphous than usually 2 bundles of 5 (or 1 of 5 and 1 of 4); anthers all equal, fertile. Ovary stipitate; ovules few; stigma terminal. Fruits indehiscent, (strongly) flattened, often thickened around the seeds or less flattened, ± leathery or woody, sometimes articulate. Seeds flattened bean-shaped to flattened ellipsoid, hilum usually eccentric.Distribution -C. 185 species, pantropic, in Malesia 33 species.Note -Corolla parts are usually glabrous. Only in very few specimens hairs at the standard were observed: PPI 1294 (Stone et al.): some hairs at the outside of the standard, this specimen is included in D. canescens, S. 23493 (Anderson): some hairs at the standard. This specimen has also diadelphous stamens (9 + 1). It may represent a new species. For several species the annotations of the habit are at first confusing. Label information gives for the same species: (scandent) shrub, tree or climber. Probably plants of the species start live as shrub or small tree with long supple and ± climbing branches. Later on or when good support is present they may develop into large lianas. Problems with identification are, in part, due to uncertainties of the true habit when fully mature. In many species not all ovules develop into seeds.
KEY TO THE SPECIES Of