Compilation
Butyrospermum paradoxum
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Name
Identification
Butyrospermum paradoxum (Gaertn.f.) Hepper [family SAPOTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, 1919 Vitellaria paradoxa C.F. Gaertner [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by D.Diop, 2005
Related name
- Butyrospermum paradoxum
- Vitellaria paradoxa
Common name
- and products: French: beurre de karité, graisse de karité (the locally produced kernel-butter); beurre de Galam, beurre de Bambouk, ci Toulou (tulu), Bambouk., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- arbre à beurre; karité (from the common colloquial name in francophone West Africa)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- shea butter tree., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- ngu (OA) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- bambô-tulô-irô (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- tokuti (OA) (GHANA, GBE-VHE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- se (FCD) si (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- ngu (OA) (GHANA, NZEMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- and products: English: shea butter (the locally produced kernel butter); shea oil (commercially expressed kernel oil); gutta-shea., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
- tubbi (Chapman) (NIGERIA, SAMBA-DAKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
Flora
Entry for BUTYROSPERMUM paradoxum (Gaertn. f.) Hepper [family SAPOTACEAE]
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, (1968) Author: J. H. Hemsley
Names
BUTYROSPERMUM paradoxum (Gaertn. f.) Hepper [family SAPOTACEAE], in Taxon 11: 227 (1962); Heine in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 21 (1963). Type: single seed of unknown origin (P, holo.)
Vitellaria paradoxa Gaertn. f. [family SAPOTACEAE], Fruct. 3: 131, t. 205 (1805); Baehni in Boissiera 11: 146 (1965)
Information
Tree with stout bole and much-branched spreading crown, height up to 20 m.; bark usually grey or blackish, deeply fissured and splitting into squarish or rectangular corky scales. Short-shoots with conspicuous cycad-like annular leaf-base scars; young shoots, petioles and flower-buds with ferrugineous pubescence of varying density. Petioles long, one-third to half length of leaf-lamina. Leaf-lamina oblong to ovate-oblong, 10–25 cm. long, 4.5–14 cm. wide, rounded at apex, base acute to broadly cuneate, margin thickened and undulate; upper and lower surfaces of mature leaf glabrescent or puberulous; lateral nerves 20–30 each side, regularly and closely spaced, slightly arcuate. Flowers fragrant. Pedicels up to 3 cm. long, puberulous to densely pubescent. Outer sepals lanceolate, 9–14 mm. long, 3.5–6 mm. wide, pubescent to ± floccose externally; inner sepals slightly smaller. Corolla cream; tube 2.5–4 mm. long, glabrous or pilose externally; lobes broadly ovate, 7–11 mm. long, 4.5–7 mm. wide. Filaments 7–12 mm. long; anthers ± lanceolate, up to 4.5 mm. long. Staminodes up to 8 mm. long. Style 8–15 mm. long. Mature fruit greenish, up to 6.5 cm. long and 4.5 cm. in diameter, subglabrous or with pubescence persisting in small patches, containing a sweet pulp surrounding the seed. Seed up to 5 cm. long, 3.5 cm. in diameter. Fig. 10.