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Diospyros cauliflora

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Name

Identification
Diospyros canaliculata De Wild. [family EBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by White F., 1960 Diospyros cauliflora De Wild. [family EBENACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Diospyros canaliculata
  • Diospyros treubii
  • Diospyros martini
  • Diospyros pergamena
  • Diospyros urdanetensis
  • Rinorea pulgarensis
  • Maba cauliflora
  • Diospyros matheriana
  • Diospyros fasciculiflora
  • Diospyros cauliflora
  • Diospyros faucium

Flora

Entry for Diospyros canaliculata [family EBENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Diospyros canaliculata [family EBENACEAE], Pl.Bequaert. 3:537 (1926).
Maba coriacea Hiern [family EBENACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1898: 76; Chev. Bot. 395, not(1873).
Diospyros cauliflora De Wild. [family EBENACEAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 5: 63 (1915), not of Blume (1825), nor of Martius ex Miq. (1856).
Diospyros chlamydocarpa Mildbr. [family EBENACEAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berl. 9: 1052 (1926).
Diospyros xanthochlamys [family EBENACEAE], of F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 4; of Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv., ed. 2, 3: 159, t. 309, 6-8, not of Gürke.
Cyclostemon gabonensis [family EUPHORBIACEAE], of Chev. Bot. 561, not of Pierre.
Information
Small or medium-sizedforesttree 15-60 ft. high; bark black, thin, smooth, breaking like flint when struck; slash black outside, pale pink turning ochrous-yellow inside; sapwood white, rapidly becoming bright yellow; flowers fragrant; corolla white; fruits borne in fascicles on the branches and trunk; fruiting calyx red.
Habitat
forest
Distribution
Lib. Gbanga (fr. Jan.) Harley 1108!Iv. C. Abidjan Aubrév. 216! Agboville (female fl.,fr. Aug.) Aubrév. 1498! Bériby, Cavally basin (fr. Aug.) Chev. 19993! Banco (cult., fr. Sept.) de Wilde 534!Ghana Anonum (male fl. Aug.) Chipp 539! Amentia, Ashanti (fr. Mar.) Vigne FH 1858! Irvine 451! Pra Anum F.R., Bekwai (female, male fl. June) Mooney FHI 7180! 7199! Banka (fr. Sept.) Vigne FHI 1362!N. Nig. Dogon Kurmi, Jemaa Div. Keay & Onochie FHI 21534!S. Nig. Akilla, Ijebu Thornewill 234! Idanre F.R. (male fl. Oct.) Iheuwa FHI 32372! Omo F.R., Ijebu (female, male fl. Aug.) Okeke FHI 36896! Okeke 8 Binuyo FHI 36897! 36898![Br.] Cam. Gangume, Gashaka Dist. (fr. Dec.) Lomax FHI 32318!
Distribution (external)
Gabon
Ubangi-Shari
Congo
Cabinda
Angola

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