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Afzelia africana

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Identification
Afzelia africana Sm. ex Pers. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Afzelia bella
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  • Afzelia africana
  • Afzelia bracteata
  • Berlinia grandiflora
  • Afzelia bipindensis
Common name
  • aru, oru (Aub.; JB) po di konta (JB) (SENEGAL, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bigé (JB) péga (Aub.; JB) piga (JB) pika (K&A) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • African oak; African mahogany; counter wood (from the Temne name); Rhodesian mahogany and mahogany bean tree (both names properly applying to Afzelia cuanzensis Welw.)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • the timber - bilinga, or Yoruba bilinga (this distinguishes it from the true bilinga, Nauclea diderrichi; afzelia; apa; aligna (from an Edo name); kontah (i.e., ‘counterwood’); papao., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • kilar (K&A) si kilinkot (Aub.; JB) si lar (JB) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • a-ndalndal (JB) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • lingué (K&A) (SENEGAL, VULGAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • lingué., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ga-pel = to mount (auctt.) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for AFZELIA africana Pers. [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
AFZELIA africana Pers. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Syn. Pl. 1: 455 (1805); Harms in V.E. 3(1): 458, fig. 251 (1915); L.T.A.: 700 (1930); Chalk, Burtt Davy, Desch & Hoyle, Twenty W. Afr. Timber Trees (For. Trees & Timb. Brit. Emp. 2): 15, fig. 2 & photos. (1933); J. Léon. in Reinwardtia 1: 64 (1950) & in F.C.B. 3: 355, fig. 27/C (1952); I.T.U., ed. 2: 55, fig. 12 (1952); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 459, fig. 149 (1958). Type: uncertain
Intsia africana (Pers.) O. Kuntze [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 192 (1891)
Information
Tree 6–30 m. high, with flat or rounded spreading crown; bark grey to dark brown, scaly; branchlets glabrous. Leaves: rhachis with petiole 4–32 cm. long or more; leaflets (mature) 2–5(–6) pairs, petiolulate, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, mostly 5–15 cm. long, 2.8–6.9(–8.5) cm. wide, obtusely pointed to ± acuminate at apex. Inflorescences paniculate, with racemose branches 3–13 cm. long, rarely (? casually and by reduction) inflorescence simply racemose. Flowers sweetly scented, with hypanthium 0.3–0.6 cm. long. Sepals shortly and densely velvety-pubescent or -puberulous outside, broadly obovate-elliptic to rotund, 2 outer 6–9 mm. long, 5–7 mm. wide, 2 inner 7–11 mm. long, 6–10 mm. wide. Large petal 1.1–2 cm. long, white or greenish-white, with pinkish-crimson streak down centre, with a rather long claw suddenly widened into a bilobed lamina 0.7–1.1 cm. wide. Stamens 7 fertile, with ± pubescent filaments. Style ± pubescent below. Pods straight, 10.5–20.5 cm. long, 5.5–8.5 cm. wide. Seeds black, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 1.6–3 cm. long, 1.1–2.1 cm. wide, with an orange cup-shaped basal aril.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2 (fide I.T.U., ed. 2: 57) from Senegal eastwards to the Sudan Republic and Uganda, including the Congo Republic
Altitude range
1220–1370 m.
Distribution
UGANDA W. Nile District Metuli, Dec. 1931, Brusnett 306 ! & Payida, escarpment foot, 21 Mar. 1945, Greenway & Eggeling 7238 !UGANDA Acholi District N. of Kitgum, Jan. 1937, Sangster 223 !

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