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Carapa grandiflora

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Name

Identification
Carapa procera DC. [family MELIACEAE ] Carapa guyanensis Aubl. [family MELIACEAE ] Carapa grandiflora Sprague [family MELIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Noamesi, G.K.,
Related name
  • Carapa procera
  • Carapa grandiflora
  • Carapa guyanensis

Flora

Entry for Carapa grandiflora Sprague [family MELIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Carapa grandiflora Sprague [family MELIACEAE], in J. Linn. Soc. 37: 507 (1906); For Trees and Timbers Brit. Emp. 4: 29, fig. 4, t. 4, C; Staner in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 16: 119, t. 1.
Carapa macrantha Harms [family MELIACEAE], (1917), from descr.
Information
A tree up to 30 ft high (to 80 ft. in Uganda), with short stem and wide spreading crown, sepals and petals greenish, staminal tube white, disk orange, stigma white,in montane forest
Habitat
in montane forest
Distribution
S.Nig.: Mackay 2! Ikwette Plateau, Obudu, 5,200 ft. (Dec.) Keay 8 Savory FHI 25181!Br.Cam.: Bamenda Prov.: Lakom Nchan, 6,000 ft. (Apr.) Maitland 1663! Batut-Ngemba F. R. (Apr.) UJORFHI 30002!
Distribution (external)
French Cameroons
Belgian
Congo
Uganda
Notes
[The description of the fruit given in the above key is based on specimens from Uganda; I have not seen fruit from our area — R. W. J. K. ]

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