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Maba cinnabarina

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Name

Identification
Maba cinnabarina Gurke [family EBENACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Diospyros cinnabarina (Gurke) F.White [family EBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by White F., 1955
Related name
  • Maba cinnabarina
  • Diospyros cinnabarina

Flora

Entry for Diospyros cinnabarina (Gürke) 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 cinnabarina (Gürke) F. White [family EBENACEAE], 39in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 26: 242 (1956).
Maba cinnabarina Gürke [family EBENACEAE], in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 43: 199 (1909).
Diospyros heudelotii [family EBENACEAE], of F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 6, partly (Zenker 3466) not of Hiern.
Information
Smallforesttree up to 30 ft. high; bark black, smooth with shallow vertical anastomosing fissures; slash jet black outside, red and fibrous inside, sapwood white; leaves dull above, pale glaucous-green beneath.
Habitat
forest
Distribution
[Br.] Cam. S. Bakundu F.R. (male fl. Mar.) Brenan 9320! Likomba Plantation Mildbr. 10531!
Distribution (external)
Cameroun
Notes
Besides the above, D. discolor Willd., a native of the Philippines, widely planted in the tropics for its edible fruits, is grown in our area. D. heterotricha (B. L. Burtt) F. White, a native of Central Africa, is also in cultivation.

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