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Afzelia bipindensis

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Identification
Isotype of Afzelia bipindensis Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Afzelia caudata
  • Afzelia africana
  • Afzelia pachyloba
  • Afzelia unrecorded
  • Afzelia bequaertii
  • Afzelia bipindensis
Common name
  • apa (Nigeria, Okeke); njoc (E Cameroun, Dalziel); doussié (francophone territories)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • alinyan (JMD) arinyan (JMD) ariyan (LC) ódó (JMD; LC) ódó liyan reduced to ódíyan; mortar for pounding yam (Elugbe) ódó niyan (auctt.) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ényìn m̀bùkpọ́ = hawk’s eye; aluding to the seeds (auctt.) (NIGERIA, EFIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • eperomila (auctt.) (NIGERIA, ESAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for AFZELIA bipindensis Harms [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 bipindensis Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in E.J. 49: 426 (1913); L.T.A.: 700 (1930); Chalk, Burtt Davy & Desch, Some E. Afr. Conif. and Legum. (For. Trees & Timb. Brit. Emp. 1): 28, 33 (1932); Chalk, Burtt Davy, Desch & Hoyle, Twenty W. Afr. Timber Trees (For. Trees & Timb. Brit. Emp. 2): 21, fig. 3 & photos. (1933); J. Léon. in Reinwardtia 1: 65 (1950) & in F.C.B. 3: 355, t. 26, fig. 27/D (1952); Torre & Hillcoat in C.F.A. 2: 216 (1956); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 459 (1958). Type: Cameroun Republic, Bipindi, Zenker 3738 (B, holo. †, K, iso.!)
Afzelia bella [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], [sensu I.T.U., ed. 2: 57 (1952), non Harms]
Information
Tall tree, 18–40 m. high; bark usually reddish-brown and scaly (but said on Sangster 538 to be “grey, fairly smooth”); young branchlets glabrous. Leaves: rhachis with petiole 9–32 cm. long; leaflets (4–)5–7(–8, fide F.C.B.) pairs, petiolulate, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 5–13(–20, fide F.C.B.) cm. long, 2.6–5.8(–7, fide F.C.B.) cm. wide, ± apiculate or shortly acuminate at apex. Inflorescence paniculate. Flowers sweetly scented, with hypanthium 1.5–4.5 cm. long. Sepals densely tomentellous outside, outer 2 elliptic, 1–1.7 cm. long, 0.8–1.5 cm. wide, inner 2 obovate-elliptic, 1.4–2 cm. long, 0.9–1.6 cm. wide. Petal upwardly turned, 3.5–6 cm. long, with a long red-purple claw, and a crumpled ± bilobed lamina 3–5 cm. wide which is white at first and then turns pink. Stamens 7 fertile, with pubescent filaments, red like the style; staminodes 2, elongate, 0.5–2 cm. long. Style very sparingly pubescent. Pods curved-reniform, (8–)11–19.5 cm. long and 5.5–8 cm. wide (fide F.C.B.). Seeds black, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5–3.3(–4.5, fide F.C.B.) cm. long, 1–1.7(–2, fide F.C.B.) cm. wide, with a deeply bilobed orange aril, one at least of whose lobes reaches to about the middle or near the top of the seed.
Range
DISTR. U2
Altitude range
± 900 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Bwamba, Kidongo, Aug. 1937, Eggeling 3374! & Bwamba, Jan. 1939, Sangster 494 ! & May 1939, Sangster 538 !
Distribution (external)
; Nigeria
Cameroun Republic
Gabon
Congo Republic
Central African Republic
Angola

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