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Chrysophyllum perpulchrum

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Name

Identification
Chrysophyllum africanum A.DC. [family SAPOTACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Chrysophyllum perpulchrum Mildbr. ex Hutch. & Dalziel [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Chrysophyllum perpulchrum
  • Chrysophyllum africanum
Common name
  • asamfona (the timber, loosely for various Sapotaceae, Ghana Forest Department); alisima (the fruit in Ghana markets, Vigne fide Irvine)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • (Oubi) duétié (Aub.; RS) (IVORY COAST, GREBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • aningueri rouge (Aubréville)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • monkey star apple; bird-lime tree (Nigeria. Farquhar)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • gdénié (Aub.; RS) (IVORY COAST, KRU-BETE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • bunji (def. -jii) (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • dubédié (Aub.) duédié (RS) (IVORY COAST, DAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • daboïgui (RS) (GUINEA, TOMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • bleing (AGV) (LIBERIA, DAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • dengni (B&D) tahué baka (Aub.; RS) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for CHRYSOPHYLLUM perpulchrum Hutch. & Dalz. [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
CHRYSOPHYLLUM perpulchrum Hutch. & Dalz. [family SAPOTACEAE], F.W.T.A. 2: 10 (1931) & in K.B. 1937: 57 (1937); I.T.U., ed. 2: 395, fig. 80/b (1952); Aubrév., Fl. For. Côte d’Ivoire, ed. 2, 3: 140, t. 30/6–8 (1959); Heine in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 28 (1963). Types: Ghana, Vigne 234 (K, syn.!, OXF, isosyn. !) & Vigne 1185 & Nigeria, Hitchens & Sankey (all K, syn.!)
CHRYSOPHYLLUM africanum Engl. var. orientale [family SAPOTACEAE], in E.J. 49: 390 (1913). Types: Tanganyika, E. Usambara Mts., Kwamkoro, Zimmermann 297 & Bomole, Braun 843 & Derema, Braun 860 (all EA, isosyn. !) and others
CHRYSOPHYLLUM africanum [family SAPOTACEAE], [sensu T.T.C.L.: 562 (1949), non A. DC]
Gambeya perpulchra (Hutch. & Dalz.) Aubrév. & Pellegr. [family SAPOTACEAE], in Not. Syst. 16: 247 (1960); Fl. Cameroun 2: 116, t. 25/6–8 (1964)
Information
Tall tree, height up to 40 m., buttressed at base; bark smooth, pale brown or greyish. Young branches, buds and petioles with very dense reddish-brown or purple-brown indumentum. Petioles 1.5–3.5 cm. long. Leaf-lamina elliptic, elliptic-obovate or oblong-obovate, 8–20(–40) cm. long, 3–6.5(–14) cm. wide, obtuse, acute or sometimes shortly acuminate, base broadly cuneate to ± rounded; upper surface glabrous, lower surface with deep reddish-brown or purplish-brown velvety indumentum of densely arranged crisped hairs; midrib and lateral nerves prominently raised, primary lateral nerves (11-)14–21(–25) on each side, arcuate, ascending. Flowers congested in current leaf axils or at old nodes, subsessile or very shortly pedicellate; pedicels up to 1.5 mm. long; pedicels and calyx with dense deep purplish-brown pubescence. Sepals broadly ovate, up to 4 mm. long, 3–4 mm. wide. Corolla cream; tube ± 2.5 mm. long; lobes ± rounded, up to 1.5 mm. long, ciliate. Filaments 1.5–2 mm. long, flattened. Ovary subglobose, densely pilose; style up to 1.5 mm. long. Fruit almost sessile, subglobose, up to 3.5 cm. in diameter, with dense reddish-brown or purplish-brown velutinous indumentum. Seeds dark brown, ± elliptic but straight along one margin, strongly laterally compressed, 1.5–2 cm. long, 1–1.4 cm. wide.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4 (based on record in I.T.U.); T3 also Congo Republic west to Liberia
Altitude range
800–1200 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Amani-Kwamkoro road, SW. of Amani, 25 July 1953 (fr.), Drummond & Hemsley 3451 ! & Kwamkoro Forest, 2 Mar. 1960, Bryce 132 ! & 133 !UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, July 1936 (fl.), Sangster 142! & July 1931 (fl.), Brasnett 131 ! & Bugoma Forest, 25 Oct. 1956 (fr.), Trask in F.D. 2103 !
Notes
A distinctive and attractive large tree with a heavy looking coppery-green crown, common in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, but apparently with a restricted distribution in East Africa. The timber is used in Uganda but is not of outstanding value.

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