Inocarpus fagifer
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Inocarpus fagifer, or the Tahitian chestnut , is a tree in the legume family from the subfamily of the butterflies. It occurs in Malaya , Indonesia , East Timor as far as New Guinea and in Mela- and Polynesia .
description
Inocarpus fagifer grows as an evergreen tree with a dense crown up to about 30 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches up to 90 centimeters and the trunk is often fluted with smaller buttress roots .
The simple, alternate and thin-leather, bare leaves are short-stalked. The short petiole is up to 1.5 inches long. The leaves are entire, ovate to elliptical, oblong or obovate, acuminate, acuminate to acuminate and up to 10–30 (50) centimeters long. The leaf base is rounded to slightly heart-shaped. The stipules are small and sloping.
Axillary, simple or compound ears are formed. The fragrant, white to yellow, five-fold and sessile flowers are double- coated . They do not have the typical shape of a butterfly flower . The cup-shaped, whitish-green, about 5 millimeters long and slightly leathery calyx is 2-5 lobed, lobed. The 5 elongated, wrinkled petals are slightly unequal, fused with tubes in the lower part and up to 1.5 centimeters long. There are 10 unequal long, short and tightly enclosed stamens in two circles, 5 are shorter and 5 are longer. They are fused together and with the corolla tube in the lower part. The Upper constant ovary is hairy, with very short pencil .
The solitary, flattened and non-opening, roughly round to egg-shaped, yellowish-green to yellow, leathery, bald legume is 5–12 centimeters in size. The seeds with a hard, woody-fibrous seed coat are up to 8 centimeters in size.
Taxonomy
The first description of Basionyms Aniotum fagiferum was made in 1773 by Sydney Parkinson in Journal of a voyage to the South Seas 39. The re-allocation to the genus Inocarpus to Inocarpus fagiferus ; later corrected to fagifer , was done in 1941 by Francis Raymond Fosberg in J. Washington Acad. Sci. 31: 95. Other synonyms are Bocoa edulis (JRForst. & G.Forst.) Baill. , Cajanus edulis (JRForst. & G.Forst.) Kuntze and Inocarpus edulis J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
use
The seeds are eaten raw and cooked. They are not used quite ripe yet. The roots and leaves are used medicinally.
literature
- Flora of Australia. Volume 50: Oceanic Islands 2 , AGPS, 1993, ISBN 0-644-14446-7 , online (PDF; 16 MB).
- PB Tomlinson: The Botany of Mangroves. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986, 2004, ISBN 0-521-25567-8 , p. 259.
- Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull: The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts. CABI, 2008, ISBN 0-85199-638-8 , p. 394 f.
- TK Lim: Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants. Volume 2: Fruits , Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-94-007-1763-3 , pp. 726-730.
Web links
- Inocarpus fagifer at PROTA.
- Inocarpus fagifer at Useful Tropical Plants.