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Blighia welwitschii

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Identification
Blighia welwitschii (Hiern) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A.W.Exell & F.A.Mendonça, Phialodiscus welwitschii Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Phialodiscus bancoensis
  • Blighia wildemaniana
  • Blighia laurentii
  • Blighia welwitschii
  • Phialodiscus unijugatus
  • Blighia unijugata
  • Phialodiscus welwitschii
Common name
  • mamagbagai (S&F) sabawoi (S&F) teli (SKS) yokomi (def. -mei) = fish-poison (auctt.) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • maiyo-sundo (S&F) sundo (FCD; S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • kologalankoŋ (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • dai-dai i.e., die-die (S&F) inshi (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KRIO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • muŋgσpo (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for BLIGHIA welwitschii (Hiern) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
BLIGHIA welwitschii (Hiern) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in E.P. IV, 165: 1146 (1933); R. Wilczek in B.J.B.B. 21: 155, fig. 40 (1951); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 722 (1958); Hauman in F.C.B. 9: 315 (1960); Fouilloy & Hallé in Fl. Cameroun 16: 183 (1973) & in Fl. Gabon 23: 183, fig. 3, t. 43/1–7 (1973); Hamilton, Field Guide Uganda For. Trees: 223, fig. 415 (1981). Type: Angola, Golungo Alto, Welwitsch 4517 (LISU, holo., BM!, K!, iso.)
Phialodiscus welwitschii Hiern [family SAPINDACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 171 (1896)
Blighia laurentii De Wild. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot., sér. 5, 3: 113 (1909). Type: Zaire, Eala, Laurent 940 (BR, holo.)
Blighia mildbraedii Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Z.A.E.: 480, t. 64 (1912). Type: Zaire, Kivu, Beni, Muera, Mildbraed 2407 (B†, holo.)
Phialodiscus mortehanii De Wild. [family SAPINDACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 4: 361 (1914), as ‘ mortehani ’; Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 1149 (1933). Type: Zaire, Dundusana, Mortehan 966 (BR, holo.)
Phialodiscus laurentii (De Wild.) Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in E.P. IV, 165: 1149 (1933)
Blighia kamerunensis Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in E.P. IV, 165: 1145 (1933); R. Wilczek in B.J.B.B. 21: 154 (1951). Type: Cameroon, Molundu, Mildbraed 4540 & near Lomie, between Assobam on the Bumba and Lomie, Mildbraed 5099 (B†, syn.)
Blighia wildemaniana Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in E.P. IV, 165: 1145 (1933); I.T.U., ed. 2: 377 (1952). Type: Zaire, Kisantu, Stanley Pool, Gillet 1823 (BR, holo.)
Information
Dioecious tree 20–25(–35) m. tall, with grey bark showing small reticulate fissures or thin, smooth, hard and flaking; slash orange and yellow-brown mottled with scattered white pock marks; young twigs orange-pubescent but soon glabrescent and dark brown. Petiole up to 16 cm. long, flattened, narrowly winged; rhachis 4–15 cm. long; leaflets olive-green, in 2–4 pairs, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, the uppermost 8–40 cm. long, 3.5–10 cm. wide, with lower pairs becoming smaller with lowermost as little as half the size, shortly and bluntly acuminate at the apex, sometimes asymmetric at the base, glabrous apart from scattered hairs on the undersides of the veins; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; lateral nerves in 7–10(–20) pairs, curving and sometimes joining inside the margin. Inflorescence-axis 3–10 cm. long; flowers in small groups or single; pedicels 5–8(–10 in fruit) mm. long. Sepals joined for 1/4 of their length, lobes 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; petals rhomboid, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, the scale equal to and joined to it to form a funnel-shaped compound petal. Stamens 7–8; filaments hairy in the lower part.Ovary 3-lobed; style entire, equalling the ovary. Capsule reddish or bright red, turbinate, 3–4-angled and -locular, up to 5.5–6(–8) cm. long, glabrous; endocarp creamy-velvety-pubescent. Seeds black or dark brown, 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide; aril up to 2 cm. long.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4
Altitude range
1050–1150 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, Apr. 1935, Eggeling 1980! & same locality, plot 6, 18 May 1993, Sheil 1726!UGANDA Mengo District Busiro, 1.5 km. N. of Kisubi on Mpigi road, 27 Mar. 1951, Dawkins 722!
Distribution (external)
; Liberia
Nigeria
W. Cameroon
Zaire
Angola
Notes
The seeds are used as a fish poison.

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