Inhambanella henriquesii
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Inhambanella henriquesii is a tree in the sapote familyfrom East to South Africa .
description
Inhambanella henriquesii grows evergreen as a tree to a height of around 25 meters. There are small roots . The relatively smooth, gray-brown bark is slightly cracked to scaly. The tree has a milky sap .
The alternate, simple, leathery leaves that are crowded at the ends of the branches are petiolate and have entire margins. The petiole is up to 4 inches long. The rounded to indented, mostly bare leaves are obovate and 7-18 inches long and 3.5-8.5 inches wide. The leaf margin is slightly thickened and partly just bent. The small stipules are sloping. The young leaves are reddish to copper in color.
The flowers appear axially in small clusters. The stalked and 4–5-fold, small, hermaphrodite, cream-colored to yellow, fragrant flowers are double- coated . The up to 1.2 centimeters long flower stalks are hairy. The 5 millimeter long, egg-shaped sepals are hairy on the outside. The bald crown is short tubular with three-part, 5 millimeter long, slightly spreading lobes. The outer two lobe segments are smaller than the middle segment. There are short and awl stamens and alternating staminodes, with flat stamens, at the top of the corolla tube. The above constant, and slightly lobed multilocular ovary is hairy with a relatively short stylus .
Red, up to 2.5–3.5 centimeters in size, fleshy and rounded to ellipsoidal, milk-sap-containing and pointed fruits, berries with a constant calyx are formed.
Taxonomy
The first description of the basionym Mimusops henriquesii (first as henriquezii with “z”) was in 1904 by Adolf Engler and Otto Warburg in Monogr. Africa. Plant Fam. 8: 80, t. XXV. The name of the epithet was then corrected with "s" in additions and improvements to henriquesii . The division into the newly established genus Inhambanella took place in 1915 (publ. Posthumously) by Marcel Marie Maurice Dubard in Ann. Mus. Colon. Marseille, sér. 3, 3: 43. Another synonym is Lecomtedoxa henriquesii (Engl. & Warb.) A.Meeuse .
use
The fruits are edible. The bark is used medicinally.
literature
- K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol.VI: Flowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-05714-4 (Reprint), p. 405.
- JH Hemsley: Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1968, online at JSTOR.
- Keith Coates Palgrave: Palgrave's Trees of Southern Africa. Third Edition, Struik, 2002, ISBN 978-1-86872-389-8 , under Sapotaceae.
Web links
- Inhambanella henriquezii at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Inhambanella henriquesii at Flora of Zimbabwe.