Combretum butyrosum
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Combretum butyrosum is a Southeast African plant from the winged family. It is also known as the butter tree and is found in Kenya , Mozambique and Tanzania .
Combretum butyrosum is a climbing or creeping shrub or shrub up to 4 meters of growing up. The branches are more or less hairy. The bark peels off in long strips.
The slightly leathery, short-stalked leaves are opposite and up to about 8 centimeters long. The leaves are, except on the nerves, glabrous and ovate to obovate or elliptical. The underside is scaly, the tip is rounded to pointed, pointed or pointed. Stipules are missing.
Usually axillary and dense, spiked inflorescences on hairy stalks with hairy rachis are formed. There are small sloping cover sheets . The small four-fold and fragrant, sessile flowers with a double flower envelope are hermaphrodite and whitish-yellow. The funnel-shaped flower cup is hairy and scaly, the calyx is four-toothed and bearded. There are eight stamens and a small nectar slice. The under constant ovary is unilocular with a long pen with capitate stigma . There are small front pages.
Four to five-winged, solitary, hairy and ellipsoidal fruits are formed.
Taxonomy
The first description under the Basionym Sheadendron butyrosum was made in 1850 by Antonio Bertoloni in Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell 'Istituto di Bologna 2: 572. The new combination to Combretum butyrosum was made in 1856 by Edmond Tulasne in Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique, Series 4 6:87.
use
A fat is obtained from the seeds, chignite butter.
literature
- AW Exell: Combretum butyrosum. In: Flora Zambesiaca. Vol. 4, 1978, p. 100.
- GE Wickens: Combretum butyrosum. In: Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1973, p. 1.
- Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society. Botany, Vol. IV, 1860, p. 167 ff.
Web links
- Combretum butyrosum at Useful Tropical Plants, accessed November 5, 2018.