Uapaca mole
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Uapaca mole is a tree in the Phyllanthaceae family from West and Central Africa to Uganda and Tanzania .
description
Uapaca mole grows as a half to evergreen tree with a richly branched crown up to 30–40 meters high. The trunk diameter can reach over 75 centimeters. The trunk is often fluted and high stilt roots are formed. The brown-gray bark is cracked to scaly.
The simple and stalked, slightly leathery leaves are arranged in a screw-like manner at the branch ends. The thick and stiff petiole is about 3–7.5 inches long. The obovate, spatulate to elliptical leaves are about 10–40 centimeters long and 10–25 centimeters wide. At the top they are rounded or pointed to rounded and underneath they are short hairy on the veins. The smaller stipules are durable. The young leaves are orange.
Uapaca mole is dioecious dioecious . The male flowers appear in axillary, small, to about 1 centimeter, stalked head by many (10-12), yellowish-green and larger bracts are accompanied, the female flowers appear individually. The unisexual, very small flowers are four to six-fold with a simple flower envelope , the petals are missing. The more or less hairy perianth , the sepals are only 1–1.5 millimeters long and short overgrown or almost free. The yellow, male, sessile flowers contain about 5 short stamens and a short-haired, small funnel-shaped pestle. The green, stalked, female flowers have a large, spherical, three-, four-chambered and slightly hairy ovary with 3 curved, fringed pistils with 5–6 stigmas each .
There are 3-4 centimeters long, rough, slightly hairy, feinwärzliche slightly brownish and brownish green-up, mehrsamige, round to ovoid drupes formed. They contain 3–4 solitary stone cores (Pyrene).
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1894 by Ferdinand Albin Pax in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 79. Some synonyms are known.
use
The fruits are edible, they should taste like avocado . They can also be used to squeeze fruit juice. The roots, bark and leaves are used medicinally.
The rather heavy, moderately resistant wood is known as Sugar-Plum or Rikio (des marais, à grandes feuilles) .
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. 132 f, limited preview in the Google book search.
- M. Chudnoff: Tropical Timbers of the World. Agriculture Handbook 607, USDA, 1984, p. 287, limited preview in Google book search.
Web links
- Uapaca mole at PROTA.
- Uapaca mole at Useful Tropical Plants.
Individual evidence
- ^ Uapaca mole at KEW Science (Descriptions).
- ^ Uapaca mole at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis (pictures).