Hexalobus crispiflorus
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Hexalobus crispiflorus is a tree in the anon family from West and Central Africa to Sudan .
description
Hexalobus crispiflorus grows as an evergreen tree up to 30 meters or more. The trunk diameter reaches 100-140 centimeters. The trunk is often strongly fluted. The gray-brown bark is cracked to scaly or flaky.
The alternate, simple leaves have very short stems. They are entire, thin-leather and obovate to elliptical, lanceolate and pointed. They are often slightly hairy on the underside, they are up to 20-25 centimeters long and up to 8 centimeters wide. The short petiole is 4-8 millimeters long. The stipules are missing.
The fragrant, cream-colored to yellow flowers are in axillary clusters up to three or appear individually. The hermaphrodite, stalked flowers are threefold with a double flower envelope . The yellow-brownish hairy flower stalk is divided with a "joint". There are several, sloping bracts available, the upper two are fused together with tubes. The egg-shaped to rounded, thick and boat-shaped, 1.5-2 centimeters long, 3 sepals are rusty short-haired on the outside, curly haired on the inside and laid back. The 6 petals in two circles are briefly fused with lanceolate, round-pointed and wrinkled, more or less short haired and 4–8 cm long tips. There are some (7-16) free, hairy carpels with bilobed, funnel-shaped, cone-shaped stigmas in a funnel-shaped process and many short, kidney-shaped and dense stamens .
There are usually several (1-8) 5-10 centimeters long, hairless to densely velvety hairy, vielsamige, ellipsoidal and feinnopplige until smooth, dark brown, not open fruit ( pomes ) formed. The many (15–30), flattened, brown seeds are 3–4 inches long.
Taxonomy
The first description was in 1845 by Achille Richard in R. de la Sagra, Hist. Phys. Cuba, pl. Vasc. I: 43. Synonyms are Hexalobus grandiflorus Benth. , Hexalobus lujae De Wild. and Hexalobus mbula Exell .
use
The sweet fruits are edible. The bark is used medicinally and fiber can be obtained from it.
The medium-weight wood can be used for some applications.
literature
- M. Botermans, Marc SM Sosef, Lars W. Chatrou, Thomas LP Couvreur: Revision of the African Genus Hexalobus (Annonaceae). In: Systematic Botany. 36 (1), 2011, pp. 33-48, doi: 10.1600 / 036364411X553108 , online at researchgate.net.
Web links
- Hexalobus crispiflorus at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Hexalobus crispiflorus at PROTA.
- Hexalobus crispiflorus at World Annonaceae.