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Erythrophleum suaveolens

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Identification
Erythrophleum suaveolens (Guill. & Perr.) Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Erythrophleum suaveolens
  • Fillaea suaveolens
  • Erythrophleum guineense
Common name
  • the timber - erun (in Anglophone territories); alui, tali (in Francophone territories); potrodom, tali (Ghana)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bu latiay (JB) bu ren (auctt.) buranabu (Aub.; K&A) buren (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • mãnçone (JB) mãnkoné (JB) (SENEGAL, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bois rouge; poison d’épreuve; tali (colloquially from local vernaculars); grand tali (Bailleul); mancône (from, Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • be tomo (JB) ptom (JB) torn (K&A) (SENEGAL, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • buran (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA (Fogny)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • kiogot (K&A) si dõng (JB) si ébun (Aub.; JB) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ordeal tree; red water tree; sassy bark; sasswood tree., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for ERYTHROPHLEUM suaveolens (Guill. & Perr.) Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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, (1967) Author: J. P. M. Brenan
Names
ERYTHROPHLEUM suaveolens (Guill. & Perr.) Brenan [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], in Taxon 9: 194 (1960). Type: Gambia [“Senegal”], Albreda, on the R. Gambia, Perrottet (P, holo). Specimen from “Senegal”, Perrottet 291 (BM!) may be an isotype.
Fillaea suaveolens Guill. & Perr. [family ], in Guill., Perr. & A. Rich., Fl. Seneg. Tent., t. 55 (? June-July 1832) & 242 (Oct. 1832)
Erythrophleum guineënse G. Don [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], Gen. Syst. 2: 424 (Oct. 1832); L.T.A.: 779 (1930); T.S.K.: 64 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 103 (1949); U.O.P.Z.: 245, fig. (1949); Wilczek in F.C.B. 3: 243, t. 18 (1952); I.T.U., ed. 2: 66 (1952); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 483, fig. 154/D (1958); K.T.S.: 104 (1961); F.F.N.R.: 124, fig. 20/C (1962). Type: from “Sierra Leone and other parts of Guinea” (Don, l.c.). Specimen from Sierra Leone, G. Don (BM, ? holo. !)
Information
Tree 9–30 m. high, with rough bark. Young branchlets slightly puberulous to glabrous. Leaves: petiole with rhachis 11–35 cm. long; pinnae 2–4 pairs, 9–19 cm. long; leaflets 7–14 per pinna, ovate, ovate-elliptic, or rarely lanceolate, usually asymmetric, mostly 2.7–9 cm. long and 1.3–5.3 cm. wide, obtusely ± acuminate at apex, glabrous or sometimes with spreading pubescence on midrib beneath; petiolules 3–5 mm. long. Racemes 3–8(–11) cm. long, shortly pubescent or puberulous (including the flowers). Flowers yellowish-white to greenish-yellow. Calyx-lobes 1–1.5 mm. long, distinctly connate below. Petals 2–3 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide. Stamen-filaments glabrous or nearly so. Pods often slightly curved, dehiscing, at least initially, along one suture only, 6–11-seeded, 8–17 cm. long, 3–5.3 cm. wide, at apex broadly rounded; stipe of pod often lateral. Seeds brown, oblong-ellipsoid, 14–17 mm. long, 10–12 mm. wide, 4–7 mm. thick, with thick endosperm. Fig. 1.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2, 3 (I.T.U., ed. 2: 66), 4; K7; T3, 4, 6; Z; P widespread in tropical Africa from Senegal to the Sudan Republic and southwards to Zambia, Rhodesia and Mozambique
Altitude range
from near sea-level to 1110 m.
Distribution
KENYA Tana River District N. of Witu, Mambosasa Forest Station, 29 Jan. 1958, Verdcourt 2129 !KENYA ?Lamu District Witu district, C. W. Elliot 1493 !TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Sigi, Oct. 1934, Greenway 4927!TANGANYIKA Kigoma District Mkuti R., Sept. 1956, Procter 514 !TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Turiani, 3 June 1933, B. D. Burtt 4748 !UGANDA W. Nile District West Madi, Amua, Eggeling 909 in F.H. 1257 !UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, Fraser in Eggeling 3812 !UGANDA Masaka District Sese Is., Bugala, Lutoboka Forest, Nov. 1931, Eggeling in F.H. 278 !ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I., Masingini ridge, 1 Feb. 1929, Greenway 1294! & 23 Feb. 1930, Vaughan 1266 !ZANZIBAR Pemba I., Madunga, 29 July 1929, Vaughan 419 !

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