Pseudospondias microcarpa
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Pseudospondias microcarpa is a species in the sumac family from West and Central Africa to Sudan and Uganda , Zambia , Tanzania and Kenya .
description
Pseudospondias microcarpa grows as a shrub or mostly as a tree to over 35 meters high. The trunk, which is up to 2 meters thick, is fluted or buttress roots are formed. The grayish, relatively smooth bark is scaly with age.
The alternate and stalked leaves are imparipinnate with 10–34 leaflets . The mostly bald rachis is about 50 centimeters long. The slightly leathery, short-stalked and almost mostly bald leaflets are entire, ovate to lanceolate to elliptical, lanceolate or oblong to obovate, lanceolate. At the top they are rounded to pointed or pointed to pointed, tailed. The leaflets are 5–20 centimeters long and 3–8 centimeters wide, the short runny stalks are up to 1 centimeter long.
Pseudospondias microcarpa is dioecious dioecious . Up to 20–50 centimeters long, more or less red-brownish hairy and axillary, multi-flowered, loose panicles are formed. The whitish, very small and functionally unisexual flowers are 4–5-fold with a double flower envelope . The 1 millimeter long sepals and the 2 millimeter long petals are roof-top. The male flowers contain 8–10 short stamens of unequal length , the episepals are slightly shorter, and a pistilode and a notched or lobed discus . The female flowers have an upper, four-five-chamber ovary with four, slightly lateral and minimal styles and short staminodes.
Up to 2.5 centimeters long, first reddish then purple to purple or bluish-black and often solitary (1–2), ellipsoidal, olive-shaped, smooth drupes are formed. The woody, elongated stone core is four, five-chambered, angular with small seed caps (operculum) at the top. The elongated seeds are 10-15 millimeters long and up to 4 millimeters wide. The flesh is thin with a resinous turpentine odor.
Taxonomy
The first description of Basionyms Spondias microcarpa was made in 1831 by Achille Richard in JBAGuillemin & GSPerrottet, Fl. Seneg. Tent. 1: 151. The division into the genus Pseudospandias took place in 1883 by Adolf Engler in ALPPde Candolle & ACPde Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 4: 259. Further synonyms are Sorindeia obliquifoliolata Engl. , Spondias angolensis O. Hoffm . and Spondias zanzee G.Don .
literature
- Quentin Meunier, Carl Moumbogou, Jean-Louis Doucet: Les arbres utiles du Gabon. Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, 2015, ISBN 978-2-87016-134-0 , p. 76 f, limited preview in the Google book search.
- JO Kokwaro: Flora of Tropical East Africa. Balkema, 1986, ISBN 90-6191-325-X , p. 53 ff.
Web links
- Pseudospondias microcarpa at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Pseudospondias microcarpa . In: S. Dressler, M. Schmidt, G. Zizka (Eds.): African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg, Frankfurt / Main 2014.
- Pseudospondias microcarpa in phytoimages (pictures)
- Pseudospondias microcarpa at Botanic Garden Meise, The Digital Flora of Central Africa.