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Manilkara obovata

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Identification
Manilkara obovata (Sabine&G.Don) J.H.Hemsl. [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name); Mimusops propinqua S.Moore [family SAPOTACEAE ]
Related name
  • Mimusops propinqua
  • Mimusops welwitschii
  • Chrysophyllum obovatum
  • Manilkara obovata
Common name
  • - (LIBERIA, KRU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • sukai (C&R) tuinyneli (C&R) (LIBERIA, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • bois de fer (= ironwood, Portères); sisina de forêt (Aubréville)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • beh (C; C&R) sako-beh (C.) (LIBERIA, BASA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • kpangkun (AGV) (LIBERIA, DAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • lon (RS) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • African pearwood., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • mbue (King) kafi loosely applied (after Burbridge; Unwin & Smythe) sukai (JMD) tufe (def. -ei) (S&F) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • fou (the timber, Voorhoeve)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for Manilkara obovata (Sabine & G. Don) J. H. Hemsl. [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
Manilkara obovata (Sabine & G. Don) J. H. Hemsl. [family SAPOTACEAE], in K.B. 17: 171 (1963); Heine in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 20 (1963); J. H. Hemsl. in K.B. 20: 468 (1966). Type: Sierra Leone, G. Don (BM, holo.!)
Chrysophyllum obovatum Sabine & G. Don [family SAPOTACEAE], in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 5: 458 (1824)
Mimusops cuneifolia Baker [family SAPOTACEAE], in F.T.A. 3: 506 (1877); Engl., E.M. 8: 64 (1904). Type: Angola, Cabinda Province, C. Smith (K, holo. !)
Mimusops lacera Baker [family SAPOTACEAE], in F.T.A. 3: 507 (1877); Engl., E.M. 8: 59, t. 20/B (1904). Types: Nigeria, Nupe, Barter 1270 & Nun R., Mann 489 (both K, syn. !)
Mimusops welwitschii Engl. [family SAPOTACEAE], in E.J. 12: 524 (1890) & E.M. 8: 58 (1904). Type: Angola, Cuanza Norte, Queta, Welwitsch 4814 (K, iso. !)
Mimusops propinqua S. Moore [family SAPOTACEAE], in J.L.S. 37: 177 (1905). Type: Uganda, Masaka District, Musozi, Bagshawe 76 (BM, holo. !, K, iso.!)
Chrysophyllum holtzii Engl. [family SAPOTACEAE], in E.J. 49: 390 (1913); T.T.C.L.: 562 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Bukoba District, Minziro Forest, Holtz 1697 (B, holo. †)
Manilkara cuneifolia (Baker) Dubard [family SAPOTACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille, sér. 3, 3: 23, fig. 11 (1915); I.T.U., ed. 2: 396, fig. 82/b, c (1952)
Manilkara lacera (Baker) Dubard [family SAPOTACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille, sér. 3, 3: 24 (1915); Aubrév., Fl. For. Côte d’Ivoire 3: 98, t. 279/1–7 (1936) & Not. Bot. Syst. 16: 227 (1960) & Fl. Gabon 1: 31 (1961) & Fl. Cameroun 2: 31, t. 2/4–8 (1964)
Manilkara welwitschii (Engl.) Dubard [family SAPOTACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Col. Marseille, sér. 3, 3: 27 (1915)
Manilkara propinqua (S. Moore) H. J. Lam [family SAPOTACEAE], in Blumea 4: 356 (1941)
Manilkara sp. 1 [family SAPOTACEAE], sensu F.F.N.R.: 321 (1962)
Manilkara sp. 2 [family SAPOTACEAE], sensu F.F.N.R.: 321 (1962)
Information
Medium-sized to tall tree with long clean and slightly fluted bole and buttressed base, height up to 35 m.; bark pale grey to dark brownish-grey, fissured and rough. Young branchlets (from crown) deep purplish-brown with pale lenticels, glabrous. Scars of fallen leaves prominent, sometimes raised and peg-like. Leaves clustered towards apices of branchlets. Petioles 5–18 mm. long, glabrescent. Leaf-lamina thinly to thickly coriaceous, obovate (rarely obovate-oblong), 3–10(–17) cm. long, l.6–5.5(–7.2) cm. wide, apex rounded or emarginate, rarely subacute, cuneate; upper surface fresh green, glabrous, lower surface paler, drying to a brownish-grey, appearing glabrescent; primary lateral nerves raised, arcuate, very fine and hairlike. Flowers fascicled in axils of older or fallen leaves. Pedicels 4–10 mm. long, with appressed brownish hairs. Calyx-lobes slightly connate at base; outer lobes ± ovate to ovate-oblong, up to 6 mm. long and 3.5 mm. wide, with brownish pubescence externally; inner lobes slightly narrower and with little pubescence externally. Corolla white; tube ±1.5 mm. long; lobes trifid; outer segments linear-lanceolate, up to 5 mm. long; median segment narrowly elliptic, up to 4.5 mm. long. Stamen-filaments up to 3.5 mm. long, flattened; anthers up to 2.5 mm. long; staminodes oblong to ± linear, irregularly laciniate. Ovary subglobose, densely pilose, 9–11-locular; style up to 6 mm. long; stigma minutely papillate. Fruits incompletely known, yellow when ripe, said to be edible, obovoid to subglobose, up to 2.5 cm. long. Mature seed not known.  The species as here accepted is widespread and includes a number of smaller geographical segregates. Characters such as degree of laciniation and number of segments of staminodes, and minor differences in leaf-size, which previously have been used to distinguish species, have proved impossible to work within the range of material now available. The tree yields a useful timber, known as Nkunya in Uganda, which is very hard and durable in the ground (see Uganda For. Dept. Timber Leaflet No. 3). A single sterile gathering from the E. Usambara Mts. may possibly extend the species range into E. Tanganyika (see under imperfectly known species No. 1, page 73).
Range
DISTR. U4; T1 extends from Sierra Leone in the west, through Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Dahomey, Nigeria, Cameroun Republic, Gabon and Congo Republic to Zambia and Angola
Altitude range
1100–1300 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Bukoba District Minziro Forest, Iara, Aug. 1939 (yng. fr.), Wigg in F.H. 1506! & Minziro Forest, Feb. 1958 (fl.), Procter 828!TANGANYIKA Musoma District Buhemba [Ruhemba] mine, Grant !UGANDA Masaka District Malabigambo Forest near Katera, 14 Aug. 1950, Dawkins 615 ! & S. Buddu, Dawe 334 ! & Kyebe, Aug. 1954 (fl.), Purseglove 1786 !
Notes
Leaves from saplings may have an abruptly tapered acumen up to 1 cm. long and in addition the lower surface may have a greyish silky appearance due to very small and densely arranged appressed hairs. Such leaves may resemble those of Bequaertiodendron natalense.

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