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Daniellia oliveri

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Name

Identification
Daniellia oliveri [family CAESALPINIACEAE ] (stored under name); null
Related name
  • Daniellia oblonga
  • Daniellia thurifera
  • Paradaniellia oliveri
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  • Daniellia ogea
  • Daniellia oliveri
Common name
  • santan (JB) (SENEGAL, VULGAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • gi-ndèб (FG&G) gi-ndep (K&A) dii-ndèp (JB) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • po di insenso (SENEGAL, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bobé (JB) popde (auctt.) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • West African gum-copal; Sierra Leone: ogea (Savill & Fox); Liberia: faro (Voorhoeve); Ghana: Accra copal, hyedua (Dept. of Forests); Nigeria: Benin gum-copal, agbomi, ekhimi, daniellia, ogega or oguja-gum (for low grade) (H-Hansen, Millson, Maloney, Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • copahu africaine (the resin, Kerharo & Adam)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • â-dep (K&A) â-diap (K&A) a-ndèp (JB) a-ndiap (JB) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • kibên (K&A) si bẽng (JB) si bẽnk (Aub.; JB) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • African copaiba balsam; West African copal; Ilorin balsam; wood-oil tree (wrongly applied, Dalziel)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for DANIELLIA oliveri (Rolfe) Hutch. & Dalz. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
DANIELLIA oliveri (Rolfe) Hutch. & Dalz. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], F.W.T.A. 1: 341, fig. 131/b (July 1928) & in K.B. 1928: 382 (Oct, 1928); L.T.A.: 697 (1930); J. Léon. in Publ. I.N.E.A.C., Ser. Scient. 45: 118, fig. 15 (1950) & in F.C.B. 3: 348, fig. 26 (1952); I.T.U., ed. 2: 63, fig. 15, photos. 9/a & b (1952). Types: several from West Africa, including Heudelot 364 from Senegal, indicated by Léonard as the type (? lectotype) and Barter 978 from Nigeria, the basis of Hook., Ic. Pl., t. 2406 (K, syn. !)
Paradaniellia oliveri Rolfe [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in K.B. 1912: 96 (1912)
Information
Deciduous tree 9–25(–45) m. high; bark pale grey, scaly, with crimson slash; crown obconical, flat-topped. Leaves: rhachis with petiole 17–50 cm. long; leaflets 4–10 pairs, ovate-elliptic to ovate-oblong, 3.5–18 cm. long, 2.5–9.5 cm. wide, asymmetric at base, ± acuminate at apex, pellucid-dotted all over, glabrous, or pubescent and becoming glabrous; petiolules 0.5–1.5 cm. long. Panicles 6–25 × 5–37 cm. Flowers white, fragrant. Sepals elliptic, 1.2–1.7 cm. long, 0.8–1.1(–1.5 when spread out) cm. wide. Petals: 1 oblong-elliptic, 0.8–1.2 cm. long, 0.3–0.45 cm. wide; 4 very small and inconspicuous. Stamen-filaments exserted, 3–3.5 cm. long, free, glabrous. Pods 6–9.5 cm. long, 3–4.5 cm. wide. Seeds obovoid or ellipsoid, 2–2.6 cm. long, 1.3–1.9 cm. wide. Fig. 24, p. 131.
Range
DISTR. U1 widespread in tropical Africa north of the Equator from Senegal eastwards to the Sudan Republic and southwards to the Cameroun Republic, Congo Republic and Uganda
Altitude range
1060–1530 m.
Distribution
UGANDA W. Nile District Adumi Camp, nearly 1 km. from Congo border, Dec. 1931, Brasnett 308 ! & Metuli, 25 Nov. 1941, A. S. Thomas 4063 ! & Aringa, 5 km. W. of Ladonga, 25 Nov. 1957, Langdale-Brown 2384!
Notes
This tree yields an oleo-resin known as West African gum copal.The description of this species by J. Léonard in F.C.B. 3: 348 (1952) gives ranges of measurements for certain organs that I have not so far been able to confirm (they are certainly not thereby to be taken as untrustworthy, however): stipules to 18 cm. long, sepals to 2.1 cm. long, larger petal to 1.6 × 0.6 cm., pods to 5 cm. wide.

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