Detarium microcarpum
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Detarium microcarpum is a plant from the genus Detarium in the subfamily of caesalpinioideae (Caesalpinioideae) within the family of the Leguminosae (Fabaceae). It is common in Africa.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Detarium microcarpum grows as a deciduous shrub or small tree and reaches heights of up to 10 meters. The bark is grayish-brown and relatively smooth and slightly to coarsely scaly to more or less cracked or nubby.
The alternate and stalked leaves are pinnate in pairs, with about 6–10 leaflets . The leaf stalk is up to 3 inches long. The short-stalked, more or less opposite, leathery and underneath lighter leaves are ovate to elliptical. The edge of the leaflet is whole and the tip is rounded to edged or rounded. The leaflet has translucent points. The nerve is pinnate and lighter, with a raised central artery underneath. The small stipules are sloping.
Generative characteristics
The fragrant flowers are arranged in an axillary, compact and multi-flowered, paniculate inflorescence . The sitting, fragrant, hermaphrodite and white flowers are radial symmetry , four-fold and with a simple flower envelope. The petals are missing, the sepals are densely hairy on the outside. There are usually 10 free, protruding stamens with white filaments and a top constant ovaries with a white pen with smaller capitate scar present.
The roundish to ellipsoidal, bare stone fruits (or stone fruit- like legumes ) are brownish and 2.5–4 centimeters in size. They contain a green, sweet and two-layered pulp and a woody, solitary core (or stone core ) in the middle of a bony and woolly ball of mesocarp layer . The flattened, rounded, about 2 centimeters large, hard and smooth seed is brown and wrinkled.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 22.
distribution
The area of Detarium microcarpum extends from Senegal to Sudan and mainly includes savannah areas .
use
Fruits, seeds and leaves are eaten. The wood is used as construction and furniture wood. There are also numerous uses of the leaves, fruits and bark in traditional medicine.
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Web links
- Detarium microcarpum . In: S. Dressler, M. Schmidt, G. Zizka (Eds.): African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg, Frankfurt / Main 2014.
- Detarium microcarpum at Useful Tropical Plants.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Adjima Thiombiano, Marco Schmidt, Stefan Dressler, Amadé Ouédraogo, Karen Hahn, Georg Zizka: Catalog des Plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso . In: Boissiera . 65, 2012, pp. 1–391. doi : 10.13140 / RG.2.1.4734.1521 . , Chambésy, Genève, CJB, Herbier Boissier, 2012, ISBN 978-2-8277-0081-3 .