Ekebergia capensis
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Ekebergia capensis is a tree in the mahogany family from Africa . It iswidespreadfrom West and Central to East Africa and southern Africa.
description
Ekebergia capensis grows as a semi- evergreen tree to about 20 meters or more. The trunk diameter reaches up to over 1 meter. The trunk is corrugated at the base or buttress roots are formed. The brownish to grayish bark is relatively smooth and thick and scaly with age.
The helically arranged and stalked leaves are imparipinnate with 7–15 short-stalked leaflets . The leaf stalk is up to 10 centimeters long and the rachis up to 25 centimeters, the leaflet stalks are up to 10-20 millimeters long. The entire, papery to slightly leathery and pointed to pointed leaves are up to 14 centimeters long and 6 centimeters wide. They are ovate, lanceolate to elliptical, lanceolate or obovate, lanceolate and more or less hairy on the underside. The stipules are missing.
Ekebergia capensis is dioecious diocesan . Axillary and hairy panicles are formed. The unisexual, short-stalked and fragrant, small, greenish to pinkish-white flowers are usually 4–5-fold and with a double flower envelope . The short overgrown, hairy on the outside sepals are up to 3 millimeters long. The free, up to 7 millimeters long petals are hairy on the outside. The mostly 10 short stamens are tubular, cup-shaped fused with the anthers at the tip. The ovary is upper constant with dicklichem pen with mushroom-shaped scar . The female flowers have staminodes with antherodes, the male a pistillode.
Roundish to 2-3 centimeters large, red or red-brownish and multi-seeded, smooth drupes are formed. The 2–4 stone cores are each solitary.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 46.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1779 by Anders Sparrman in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1779: 282. Various synonyms are known such as Ekebergia rueppelliana (Fresen.) A.Rich. , Ekebergia senegalensis A.Juss. , Trichilia ekebergia E. Mey . ex Sond. , Charia indeniensis A. Chev. or Sorindeia doeringii Engl. & K.Krause u. a.
use
The fruits are barely edible.
The bark , roots and leaves as well as the wood are used medicinally.
The relatively light, soft wood is not very durable. It is only used locally for various applications.
literature
- Martin Chudnoff: Tropical Timbers of the World. Agriculture Handbook 607, USDA Forest Service, 1984, p. 217, limited preview in Google Book Search.
Web links
- Ekebergia capensis at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Ekebergia capensis at PROTA.
- Ekebergia capensis . In: S. Dressler, M. Schmidt, G. Zizka (Eds.): African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg, Frankfurt / Main 2014.