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Borassus aethiopum

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Name

Identification
Borassus aethiopum Mart. [family ARECACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Ugbogu, O.A, 2007
Related name
  • Borassus aethiopum
  • Borassus sambiranensis
Common name
  • bas (JB) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • borassus-palm; elephant-palm; fan-palm; African fan-palm; desert-palm; palmyra-palm (correctly B. flabellifer Linn. of Asia); rhun-palm, black rhun-palm (The Gambia, from Wolof name, Percival); deleb-palm., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • berembe (JB) (SENEGAL, BADYARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • be hon (JB) difundi the male tree (K&A) difundi the male tree (JB) sa hun (JB) sorun at Difangor (JB) torunt the female tree (K&A) torunt the female tree (JB) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • kakoi the g (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ékach plumule of the newly germinated seed (JB) sikach (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ndar a slender var., small leaves & fruit, hard wood (A Chev. fide JMD) teissanku with large fruits, short stem (A Chev. fide JMD) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • sarap nets made of the fibre for catching river-fish (N’diaye) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • (‘Maure’) a kof (JB) (SENEGAL, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • rôtnier (from Wolof name)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • noix de corozo (the vegetable ivory; see above); chou-palmiste (the cabbage, generally applied.), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • agobeam (trade name, Ghana, Nigeria for the split stems, auctt.); corozo (the vegetable ivory, but misapplied: properly Phytelephas spp. of tropical and Central America)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • dyσbiσ cabbage (FG&G) ma-fέŋ swollen cotyledonary sheath (FG&G) nya-gεmέ fibre (FG&G) ga-ká fruit cluster (FG&G) ga-kὲs leaf (FG&G) gε-tyεďὲs central leaf (FG&G) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • σ-fσtokóy castanet of the dried kernel (FG&G) ga-nyar a mat of the leaflets (FG&G) бa-nyәl-ir-бapέy the wine (FG&G) бa-nyi the wine (FG&G) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Borassus aethiopum Mart. [family PALMAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Names
Borassus aethiopum Mart. [family PALMAE], Münch. Gel. Anzeig. 639 (1838), 46 (1839), and in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 220, tt. 108, 121, 162; Beccari in Webbia 4: 325 (1914), and in Palme Borass. 8 (1924).
Borassus flabellifer var. aethiopum (Mart.) Warb. [family PALMAE], in Engl., PflOstAfrB: 20, C: 130 (1895); F.T.A8: 117.
Information
The tallest of African palms, often 70 ft. high and sometimes as much as 100 ft., with trunk swollen above the middle; in dry savanna.The palm is dioecious, the female conspicuous by ito large orange fruits.
Habitat
; in dry savanna.
Range
Widely distributed in tropical Africa.
Distribution
Sen.: Brunner!Iv. C.: Assinie Chev. 16312! Béréby Oldeman 625!Ghana: Ejura, Ashanti Chipp 773!N. Nig.: Nupe Barter 792!

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