Sorindeia madagascariensis
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Sorindeia madagascariensis is a tree in the sumac family from Madagascar , the Comoros and Mascarene Islands and the east coast of Africa from Somalia to Mozambique .
description
Sorindeia madagascariensis grows as an evergreen and richly branched tree up to about 20 meters high. The brownish to greyish rough bark is slightly cracked to scaly or flaky.
The alternate and stalked leaves are unpaired pinnate with up to 13 leaflets . They are up to 30–45 centimeters long with a petiole. The slightly leathery and short-stalked, almost bald leaflets are entire, up to 20–30 centimeters long, up to 10 centimeters wide and rounded or pointed to tailed. They are ovate, lanceolate to obovate, lanceolate with an often wavy edge and the petiole is about 2–2.3 centimeters long.
Sorindeia madagascariensis is dioecious diocesan . Up to 1 meter long and bare, hanging, loose panicles are formed which appear axillary or terminal, often on leafless branches, as well as stem-flowered, califlowers . The small, greenish-red or greenish-yellow flowers with a double flower envelope are 4–5-fold and have short stems. The very small, overgrown calyx is bare and up to 1.5 millimeters long with minimal teeth. The fleshy 4–5 petals are up to 4 millimeters long and lobed. The functionally female flowers have a permanent top, bald and unilocular ovary with short style and up to 10 small staminodes. The male flowers have up to 10–20 very short stamens with large anthers. There is one discus each.
Small, obovate to ellipsoidal and yellow, up to 2–2.8 centimeters long, solitary, sometimes pointed, smooth, bare stone fruits are formed. They stand in fruit stands up to 1.6 meters long.
use
The grape-like and sweet and sour fruits are edible.
The roots and bark are used medicinally.
The very good wood is used in many ways.
literature
- K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. X: Flowering Plants Eudicots , Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-14396-0 , pp. 8 f, 17, 21, 37.
- FJ Breteler: The African genus Sorindeia (Anacardiaceae): A synoptic revision. In: Adansonia. 25, 2003, pp. 93–113, online at Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.
- Food and fruit-bearing forest species. 1: Examples from Eastern Africa , FAO Forestry Paper 44/1, FAO 1983, ISBN 92-5-101385-3 , pp. 95-98, online (PDF; 8.3 MB).
- JO Kokwaro: Flora of Tropical East Africa. Balkema, 1986, ISBN 90-6191-325-X , p. 45 ff.
Web links
- Sorindeia madagascariensis at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Sorindeia madagascariensis . In: S. Dressler, M. Schmidt, G. Zizka (Eds.): African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg, Frankfurt / Main 2014.