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Schrebera arborea

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Identification
Isotype of Schrebera arborea A.Chev. [family OLEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Schrebera trichoclada Welw. [family OLEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Schrebera arborea
  • Schrebera trichoclada
Common name
  • kokofubéné (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-BRONG), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • batirô (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • pau (pó de) goiaba correctly this is Psidium guajava, Myrtaceae (auctt.) (GUINEA-BISSAU, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • bo (IVORY COAST, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • maharra (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, BIDYOGO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • bu yupa (JB) é yompa (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for SCHREBERA arborea Chev. [family ]
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, (1952) Author: W. B. TURRILL
Names
SCHREBERA arborea Chev. [family ], in Mém. Soc. Bot. Fr. 8: 180 (1911). Type: Ivory Coast, Anoumaba, Nov. 1909, Chevalier 22352 (P. holo; K, iso.!).
SCHREBERA macrantha Gilg & Schellenb. [family ], E.J. 51, 65 (1913); E.P. IV. 243 II, 101 (1920). Type: French Cameroons, Molundu, between Jukaduma and Assobam, April 1911, Mildbraed 4986 (B, holo. †)
SCHREBERA macrocarpa Gilg & Schellenb. [family ], in Mildbraed, Z.A.E. 526, t. 72 (1913). Type: Belgian Congo, Beni, March 1908, Mildbraed 2762 (B, lecto. †).
Information
Tree, 18–35 m. tall, with thin, smooth, and pale yellowish-white or grey-brown bark, branchlets terete, glabrous, with scattered prominent lenticels. Leaves simple, with mature blades broadly elliptic to oblong- or ovate-elliptic rarely broadly obovate, subacute to shortly acuminate, rounded or shortly and sometimes asymmetrically cuneate at the base, 5–17 cm. long, 3–10 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous; petioles 1–5.3 cm. long, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal to short branches, 9–12-flowered, the branches and the calyx glabrous. Corollas white or creamy white with chocolate-purple hairs on the lobes, tube 1–1.6 cm. long, scented. Fruits at first ellipsoid but finally pear-shaped, 6 cm. long, 3–3.5 cm. in broadest diameter, with thick woody valves. Seeds (including the unilateral membranaceous wing) flattened, lanceolate, 4 cm. long, 1 cm. broad.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2, 4
Altitude range
780–1200 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, Febr. 1935 (fl.), Eggeling 1606!UGANDA West Nile District Zoka Forest, E. Madi, June 1933 (fr.), Eggeling 1245!
Distribution (external)
Ivory Coast
Sudan
Congo

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