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Pimenta racemosa

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Name

Identification
Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J. W. Moore [family MYRTACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pimenta racemosa
Common name
  • wild clove; bayberry; bay-rum tree (Irvine)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J.W. Moore [family MYRTACEAE]
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, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J.W. Moore [family MYRTACEAE], (U.O.P.Z.: 412 (1949)
Amomis caryophyllata (Jacq.) Krug & Urb. [family MYRTACEAE], ((T.T.C.L.: 370 (1949); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 6 (1953)
Pimenta acris (Sw.) Kostel. [family MYRTACEAE]
Information
Shrub or small slender tree 7.5–15 m tall; bark thin and scaly, peeling to produce a mottled trunk; essentially glabrous but with dense glands on stems and leaves. Leaves very aromatic, obovate to elliptic, 3–15 cm long, 1.2–7.5 cm wide, acute to broadly rounded at the apex, coriaceous. Flowers white, 5-merous, small, in many flowered ((5–)15–100) panicles 2.5–12 cm long. Fruit subglobose, 6–12 mm diameter, 1–4-seeded (2–8 fide T.T.C.L.).
Notes
Bayrum tree, native of West Indies and northern South America, has been grown in Tanzania (Lushoto District: Sigi, 15 Feb. 1921, Soleman A.H. 6054 & Sigi Chini 16, 9 Dec. 1940, Greenway 6071 & Amani Chini Plantation, 23 Mar. 1973, Ruffo 657 & 1051; has been recorded from Zanzibar and Pemba).: The nomenclatural complications of the last two species are explained by Landrum, Fl. Neotropica, Mon. 45: 79, 83, 107 (1986). He also figures both species, fig. 24 & 45.

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