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Chrysophyllum africanum

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Chrysophyllum edule Hoyle [family SAPOTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Chrysophyllum africanum A.DC. [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Aningeria adolfi-friederici
  • Aningeria adolfi-friedericii
  • Chrysophyllum edule
  • Chrysophyllum perpulchrum
  • Chrysophyllum delevoyi
  • Chrysophyllum africanum
  • Pouteria adolfi-friedericii
  • Chrysophyllum macrophyllum
  • Gambeya africana
Common name
  • - (LIBERIA, KRU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • anandjo (JMD; K&B) ananyo (JMD; K&B) (IVORY COAST, ABURE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • (Krahn) sié-ta (GK) (LIBERIA, GUERE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • boh (GK) (LIBERIA, DAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • akutiσ (JMD) aningéri (JMD; K&B) (IVORY COAST, ABE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • bungi (AHU fide JMD) duaŋgulo (def. -gulεi) (auctt.) tεyε (Cole) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • star apple; African star apple., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • the timber – akatio; asamfona (Ghana, loosely to varous Sapotaceae): the fruit - alasema, alisima (Ghana); odara pear (lower Niger, Nigeria)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • aka (IVORY COAST, AKYE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for CHRYSOPHYLLUM africanum A. DC. [family SAPOTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 497, (1877) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
CHRYSOPHYLLUM africanum A. DC. [family SAPOTACEAE], Prodr. viii. 163?.
CHRYSOPHYLLUM macrophyllum G. Don [family SAPOTACEAE], in Trans. Hort. Soc. v. 458?
Information
A tree, 60 ft. high, with branchlets thinly coated with bright ferruginous tomentum. Leaves distinctly petioled, obovate-oblong, reaching 6–10 in. long, 3–4 in. broad above the middle, obtuse or cuspidate, deltoid or slightly rounded at the base, rigidly coriaceous, bright green above, persistently bright ferruginous beneath, with 16–20 pairs of parallel erecto-patent much raised veins. Flowers in crowded umbels from the axils of the leaves and below them on the branchlets on pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx 1/8 in. long, cleft nearly to the base; segments oblong, densely coated like the pedicels with their ferruginous tomentum. Corolla campanulate, half as long again as the calyx; segments oblong, obtuse, about as long as the tube. Stamens shorter than the corolla-segments; anthers minute, oblong, obtuse, shorter than the flattened filament. Ovary silky; style short, entire; stigma capitate.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea Vogel! Mann!
Notes
This is the C. africanum of Bentham in the Niger Flora, p. 441. Whether it be identical with the plant of G. Don and A. De Candolle, from Sierra Leone, there is no means of positively ascertaining. Don's description is very vague, and no authenticated specimens seem to be extant. The impression of Mr. J. Smith, A. L. S., who was Curator of Kew Gardens at the time of its publication, is that Don had mainly in view a garden plant of uncertain origin.

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