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Carapa guineensis

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Name

Identification
Carapa guineensis Sweet ex A.Juss. [family MELIACEAE ] Carapa procera DC. [family MELIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Carapa procera
  • Carapa guineensis

Flora

Entry for CARAPA guyanensis Aubl. [family MELIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 329, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
CARAPA guyanensis Aubl. [family MELIACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 626.
CARAPA guineensis G. Don [family MELIACEAE], in Loud. Hort. Brit. 168; A. Juss. Mém. Mél. t. 9. f. 21.
CARAPA Touloucouna Guill. et Perr. [family MELIACEAE], Fl. Seneg. i. 128 (see also Rœmer, Syn. Hesp. i. 122–3).
Information
Leaves multifoliolate, imparipinnate, 2–4 ft. in length, principally collected at the extremities of the branches; leaflets subopposite or alternate, broadly oblong or oblong-elliptical, apex rounded, shortly apiculate or mucronate, the upper usually 5–12 in. long, 1 1/2–4 in. broad; petiolules very short or obsolete or from 1/4– 1/2 in., very thick in the larger leaves. Panicles many-flowered, 1/2–2 ft. or longer; lateral branches spreading, short or elongate. Flowers in cymose clusters; pedicels various, very short or slightly exceeding the flower. Teeth of the staminal tube rounded or subquadrate, entire or slightly emarginate. Ovary 5–4–6-celled, immersed in a thick annular disk with a rounded free margin. Ovules 4–7 in each cell. Fruit about 4–5 in. in diam., subglobose. The seeds afford an oil used by the natives.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea !Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Barter!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Barter! Mann!Niger Upper Guinea Barter!Ambas Bay Upper Guinea Mann!
Notes
I have compared specimens in flower as well as fruits preserved in the Kew Museum from tropical America and West Africa, and I cannot find any specific difference between them. The distinctions d by Perrottet and quoted by A. Jussieu, I have little confidence in, and Jussieu himself suspected that they might belong to one species. The Senegambian Carapa is described as a large tree; further south, according to Barter's labels, it occurs as a small one.

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