Buchanania obovata
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Buchanania obovata is a species of the genus Buchanania within the sumac family(Anacardiaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Buchanania obovata grows as a small to medium-sized tree or shrub and reaches heights of up to 15 meters. The bark of the twigs is usually rough and downy or hairy with tomentose hair.
The simple, thick, leathery leaves are 5 to 25 centimeters long and 1.5 to 10 centimeters wide and are oblong-oval and often slightly notched at the top. Most of the 13 to 21 pairs of leaf nerves emanate from the main nerve.
Generative characteristics
The paniculate inflorescences are lateral.
The relatively small flowers are 0.7 to 0.9 centimeters in diameter. The hermaphroditic flowers are radial symmetry and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The five sepals are only a maximum of 1 millimeter long. The five cream-colored petals are 3 to 3.8 millimeters long. There are two circles with five stamens each, 1.3 to 1.8 millimeters long. The flowers usually contain five carpels , only one of which is fertile.
The smooth, fleshy stone fruit is lenticular with a length of 1 to 1.7 centimeters and has a leathery skin.
Occurrence
Buchanania obovata thrives in the undergrowth in the forest areas of northern Australia .
Taxonomy
The first description of Buchanania obovata was made in 1883 by Adolf Engler in Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle and Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle : Anacardiaceae. Monographiae Phanerogamarum , Volume 4, Page 187. The type material was collected by C. Hull at the Escape Cliffs in the Northern Territory . Synonyms for Buchanania obovata Engl. Are: Buchanania muelleri var. Pilosa Engl. , Buchanania oblongifolia W.Fitzg. , Buchanania angustifolia Roxb. , Buchanania latifolia Roxb. , Buchanania lucida flower , Buchanania florida showers .
use
The fruit is consumed by the Aborigines , hence the common English names . Buchanania obovata is also used in traditional medicine.
Common names
Common English names are: green plum, wild mango. The Aborigines ( Bardi ) call this species gorrol.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Buchanania obovata - data sheet at Australian Plant Name Index = APNI, IBIS database. Center for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. last viewed on October 10, 2017.
- ^ A b Flora of Australia Online from Flora of Australia Volume 25, 1985.
- ^ John Brock: Top End Native Plants. 1988. ISBN 0-7316-0859-3 .
- ↑ Buchanania obovata - data sheet at Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants , Version 6.1 last viewed on October 10, 2017.
- ^ Grazyna Paczkowska, 1996: Buchanania obovata - data sheet at Western Australian Flora . last viewed on October 10, 2017.
