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Maesopsis eminii

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Name

Identification
Maesopsis eminii Engl. [family RHAMNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Onochie,C.F.A., 1947
Related name
  • Maesopsis eminii
  • Berchemia unrecorded
  • Karlea berchemioides
Common name
  • sambanε-koloma (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • tututo (B&D) (IVORY COAST, ABURE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ngσmba-hina (indef.) = male ‘ngomba’ (Fox; S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • manasati (auctt.) (IVORY COAST, ABE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • wσmba-kaima (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • samsεlε-piando (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • bu-au-wreh (C; C&R) (LIBERIA, KRU-BASA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for MAESOPSIS eminii Engl. [family RHAMNACEAE]
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, (1972) Author: MARSHALL C. JOHNSTON (University of Texas Herbarium)
Names
MAESOPSIS eminii Engl. [family RHAMNACEAE], P.O.A. C: 255 (1895); Eggeling & Harris, Fifteen Uganda Timbers: 99 (1939); T.T.C.L.: 468 (1949); I.T.U., ed. 2: 323, photo. 52, fig. 68 (1952); Verdc. in B.J.B.B. 27: 352 (1957); K.T.S.: 388, fig. 76 (1961). Type: Tanganyika, Bukoba, Stuhlmann 971 (B, holo.†, M, iso. fragment!)
Information
Trees (5–)15–25(–42) m. tall; trunk (l–)2–5(–10) dm. thick; bark silvery grey with vertical twisted furrowing; slash red outside, yellow near the wood; heartwood yellowish, darkening on exposure to reddish brown. Year-old branchlets glabrescent, smooth, brownish, lenticellate; youngest branches dark, puberulent to nearly glabrous. Leaf-blades ovate-elliptic to oblong-ovate, 7–14 cm. long, 2.5–6 cm. wide, lustrous above, paler beneath, glabrous except when quite young, at base rounded to subcordate, acuminate, at margins with rounded ± salient teeth or projections 0.3–5 mm. long, on each side of midrib with (6–)7–10 secondary nerves; petioles 6–12 mm. long, puberulent to glabrescent. Stipules 2–6 mm. long, puberulent. Cymes 1–5 cm. long, many-flowered; primary peduncle 4–25 mm. long; ultimate pedicels l–3(–6) mm. long. Sepals ± 1.5 mm. long. Drupe (only 1, 2 or rarely 3 fruits set per inflorescence) obovoid or narrowly so, 22–30 mm. long, 10–16 mm. thick, the style and stigma persistent; outer portion of mesocarp fleshy.

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