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Sideroxylon dulcificum

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Identification
Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach. and Thonn.) Daniell [family SAPOTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Bumelia dulcifica Schumach. ex Thonn. [family SAPOTACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Sideroxylon dulcificum Alph. DC. [family SAPOTACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Sideroxylon longistylum
  • Synsepalum dulcificum
  • Bumelia dulcifica
  • Synsepalum brevipes
  • Sideroxylon dulcificum

Flora

Entry for SIDEROXYLON dulcificum A. DC. [family SAPOTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 497, (1877) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
SIDEROXYLON dulcificum A. DC. [family SAPOTACEAE], Prodr. viii. 183.
Bumelia dulcifica Thonn. & Schum. [family SAPOTACEAE], Pl. Guin. 130.
Information
A shrub 6 ft. high, with slender strict glabrous brownish branchlets. Leaves shortly petioled, exstipulate, obovate-cuneate, reaching a length of 4–6 in., obtuse, subcoriaceous, glabrous. Flowers few in a cluster, on cernuous ferrugineo-pilose pedicels 1/6 in. long. Calyx ferrugineo-tomentose, with 5 oblong obtuse segments. Corolla whitish, little longer than the calyx, deeply 5-fid. Stamens 5; filaments very short; anthers oblong, not exserted from the corolla; staminodes setaceous, as long as the stamens. Ovary subglobose; style reaching to the top of the corolla. Fruit the size of a gooseberry, glabrous, succulent, 1-seeded. Seed the same shape as the fruit, with a fragile brown glossy pericarp
Distribution
Upper Guinea Aguapim, Thonning.

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