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Diospyros hoyleana

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Name

Identification
Diospyros hoyleana F.White [family EBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by White,F., Maba kamerunensis Gürke [family EBENACEAE ] Strombosiopsis buxifolia S.Moore [family EBENACEAE ]
Related name
  • Strombosiopsis buxifolia
  • Diospyros hoyleana
  • Maba kamerunensis

Flora

Entry for Diospyros hoyleana F. White [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 hoyleana F. White [family EBENACEAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 26: 245 (1956).
Maba kamerunensis Gürke [family EBENACEAE], in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 46: 150 (1912); F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 6, not Diospyros kamerunensis Gürke (1899).
Information
Forestshrub or small tree up to 45 ft. high; bark dark brown or black, smooth; slash black and brittle outside, reddish inside like that of D. alboflavescens, crumbling; sapwood pinkish-white with black longitudinal lines; leaves dark green and glossy above, margins coarsely undulate; flowers pale yellow or white, borne down the leafless twigs but not on the trunk; fruit red, turning black.
Habitat
Forest
Distribution
S. Nig. Cross R. Jones FHI 6882! Oban Richards 5163![Br.] Cam. S. Bakundu F.R., Kumba (male , female fl. Mar.) Brenan 9288! 9309! 9471! Onochie FHI 30853!
Distribution (external)
Cameroun
Gabon
Cabinda
Congo
N. Rhodesia
Angola

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