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Hormogyne altissima

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Identification
Pouteria altissima (A.Chev.) Baehni [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name); Aningeria altissima (A.Chev.) Aubrév.&Pellegr. [family SAPOTACEAE ] Sideroxylon gabonense (A.Chev.) Lecomte ex Pellegr. [family SAPOTACEAE ] Hormogyne altissima A.Chev. [family SAPOTACEAE ] Hormogyne gabonensis A.Chev. [family SAPOTACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sideroxylon gabonense
  • Hormogyne gabonensis
  • Sideroxylon altissimum
  • Aningeria altissima
  • Pouteria altissima
  • Hormogyne altissima

Flora

Entry for ANINGERIA altissima (A. Chev.) Aubrév. & Pellegr. [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
ANINGERIA altissima (A. Chev.) Aubrév. & Pellegr. [family SAPOTACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 81: 796 (1935); Wimbush, Cat. Kenya Timbers: 27 (1950); I.T.U., ed. 2: 386, fig. 77 (1952); F.P.S. 2: 371 (1952); Verdc. in K.B. 11: 453 (1957); Aubrév., Fl. For. Côte d’Ivoire, ed. 2, 3: 136, t. 300/1–4 (1959); J. H. Hemsl. in K.B. 15: 277 (1961); K.T.S.: 523, fig. 96 (1961); Fl. Gabon 1: 149, t. 26/1–5 (1961); Heine in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 24 (1963); Fl. Cameroun 2: 134, t. 29/1–4 (1964). Types: Guinée Republic, Kaba valley, Chevalier 13129 & subtributary of Mango R., Chevalier 13141 (both P, syn., K, isosyn.!)
Hormogyne altissima A. Chev. [family SAPOTACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Bot. Fr. 8: 265 (1917) & Veg. Ut. Afr. Trop. Fr. 9: 263 (1917)
Sideroxylon altissimum (A. Chev.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SAPOTACEAE], F.W.T.A. 2: 12 (1931)
Pouteria giordani Chiov. [family SAPOTACEAE], in Atti R. Accad. Ital. 11: 43 (1940). Type: Ethiopia, Galla Sidamo, near Dembidollo, Uaba Forest, Giordano 2455 (FI, holo. !)
Pouteria altissima (A. Chev.) Baehni [family SAPOTACEAE], in Candollea 9: 292 (1942)
Information
Tall tree, height up to 50 m., with clean straight cylindrical bole and pale greyish bark, slightly buttressed at base. Young shoots and petioles finely pubescent or puberulous; older branches blackish-brown and glabrous. Petioles up to 1.5 cm. long. Leaf-lamina elliptic to elliptic-obovate or oblong-elliptic, 5–13(–16) cm. long, 3–7 cm. wide, obtuse and emarginate or sometimes shortly and bluntly acuminate, rarely acute, base rounded or abruptly and broadly cuneate, subglabrous except on midrib of lower surface; lateral nerves 14–22 each side, arcuate, ascending. Flowers fragrant, clustered in axils of current leaves, with 2–8 in each axil; pedicels 3–6 mm. long, pubescent. Sepals spreading, elliptic to broadly ovate, 3.5–5.5 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. wide, pubescent or puberulous outside with very short hairs. Corolla greenish-cream to pale yellow; tube up to 3.5 mm. long; lobes ± ovate to elliptic-oblong, up to 2 mm. long, ciliate. Free part of filaments up to 1.5 mm. long. Staminodes subulate, ± 2 mm. long. Ovary densely pilose; style up to 3.5 mm. long. Fruit red, obovoid to subglobose, up to 2 cm. in diameter, finely pubescent when young, becoming subglabrous at maturity. Seed ± obovoid, up to 1.5 cm. long; testa shiny brown; scar pale and rough, ± elliptic.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K5; T1 extends from Guinée Republic in the west through the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Cameroun Republic to the Sudan Republic and SW. Ethiopia
Altitude range
1000–1700 m.
Distribution
KENYA N. Kavirondo District Kakamega Forest, June 1934 (fl.), Dale in F.D. 3257 ! & 11 Dec. 1956, Verdcourt 1684 !TANGANYIKA Biharamulo District Nyakanazi, July 1953 (fl.), Eggeling 6639!TANGANYIKA Mwanza District Geita, 14 Apr. 1937, B. D. Burtt 6510 !UGANDA W. Nile District Payida [Paida], Feb. 1934 (fl.), Eggeling 1536 !UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, Feb. 1932 (fl.), Harris 53 in F.D. 460 !UGANDA Mengo District Kajansi Forest, 16 km. on [Kampala–] Entebbe road, Oct. 1937 (fl.), Chandler 1994 !
Notes
The flowers of the Uganda material are on the whole slightly larger than those from West Africa, but this may be regarded as normal size variation in a species showing a characteristic East to West African forest distribution. Large resources of the tree, providing a good quality and easily worked timber, occur in Uganda. The timber is marketed under the trade name of Osan or Osen. In Kenya, where the species is known from the Kakamega Forest area only, the timber goes under the name Mukangu and is said to resemble that of Muna, Aningeria adolfi-friedericii, very closely.

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