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Pterygota bequaertii

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Name

Identification
Pterygota bequaertii De Wild. [family STERCULIACEAE ] (stored under name); Sterculia bayakensis Pellegr. [family STERCULIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sterculia bayakensis
  • Pterygota bequaertii
  • Pterygota aubrevillei
Common name
  • oporipor (Kennedy) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • niegbakro (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, KRU-BETE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • akodiakédé (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, AKYE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for Pterygota bequaertii De Wild. [family STERCULIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Pterygota bequaertii De Wild. [family STERCULIACEAE], in Comp. Rend. Soc. Biol. (Réunion, Dec. (1919)) 82: 1397 (1919).
Pterygota aubrevillei Pellegr. [family STERCULIACEAE], in BullSocBotFr78: 441 (1931); AubrévFlForCIv2: 256, t227
Sterculia thompsonii Hutch. & Dalz. [family STERCULIACEAE], F.W.T.A., ed1, 1: 251 (1928), partly (lvsonly).
Information
Foresttree, to 100 ft. high; less common than P. macrocarpa, and usually in rather moister regions; flowers cream when young, with ginger-brown hairs.
Habitat
Forest
Distribution
Iv. C. (May) Aubrév. 1926! Mé (Oct.)S. Nig. W. Prov. Thompson 6! Abeku, Omo F.R. (fl. 8 fr. Feb.) Jones 8 Onochie FHI 16738! Sapoba Kennedy 1633! 1857! 1905! Usonigbe F.R. (fr. Aug.) Adekunle FHI 22637! 22644! Mamu River F.R. (fl. 8 fr. Nov.) Keay FHI 21529! Degema (fl. 8 fr. Aug.) Rosevear PH. 1/39! Talbot 3641! Oban Talbot 217!
Distribution (external)
French Cameroons
Gabon
Belgian Congo
Notes
Besides the above indigenous species, P. alata (Roxb.) R. Br. from tropical Asia has been collected (Maitland 445) at Victoria, British Cameroons; the references to the fruit in Milne-Redhead’s paper (Kew Bull. 1950: 348) are based on this specimen and not on P. macrocarpa K. Schum.

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