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Trichilia dregeana

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Name

Identification
Trichilia dregeana Sond. [family MELIACEAE ] (stored under name); Trichilia schliebenii Harms [family MELIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Trichilia chirindensis
  • Trichilia umbrosa
  • Trichilia schliebenii
  • Trichilia splendida
  • Trichilia strigulosa
  • Walsura unrecorded
  • Trichilia dregei
  • Trichilia emetica
  • Trichilia dregeana
  • Trichilia welwitschii
  • Trichilia ledermannii
  • Ekebergia unrecorded
  • Trichilia stuhlmannii
  • Trichilia vestita
Common name
  • aribanda des montagnes (after Aubréville)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • uagon (Aub.) (IVORY COAST, DAN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Trichilia dregeana [family MELIACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Trichilia dregeana [family MELIACEAE]
Common names
Trichilia dregeana var. oblonga Harv. ex Sond. in F.C. 1: 246 (1860); Harv., Thes. Cap. 1: 49 fig. 76 ('1859', probably 1860, see below). Type: South Africa, Port Natal [Durban], Sanderson s.n. (TCD, holo.; K!). Trichilia dregei E. Mey. ex C. DC. in Monogr. Phan. 1: 657 (1878); E. Mey. ex Drege, Zwei Pfl. Doc. 227 (1843), nam. nud. Type: Drege 39 (P, nolo.!). Trichilia dregei var. oblonga (Harv. ex Sond.) C. DC. in Monogr. Phan. 658 (1878), nom. illegit. Trichilia emetica sensu Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 2: 487 (1932), as to syn. 7". dregeana only.
Information
Evergreen tree up to 20 m tall; bole up to 1,8 m diam., tall and straight when growing inside forest, but branched at 2 m in open; crown dense, very wide-spreading in open. Leaves up to 260 mm long. Leaflets 7-11, up to 210 x 85 mm; apex of lateral leaflets shortly and acutely acuminate or bluntly subacuminate (with the tip itself often shallowly notched), nearly always showing a hollow curve; lower surface glabrous or with a few short strigulose hairs, usually drying dark brown; lateral nerves in 7-12, usually widely spaced pairs. Inflores­cence sometimes many-flowered in male, always few-flowered and usually lax in female. Petals usually 13—22 mm long. Staminal tube usually 10-16 mm long. Fruit (ripe but un­opened) 30-50 mm in diam., occurring 1-3 together in the leaf axils. Chromosome number: 2n = c.360 (Ethiopia). Fig. 17:1.
Use
1. Trichilia dregeana Sond. in F.C. 1: 246 (1860); White & Styles in F.Z. 2: 298 (1963); De Wilde, Rev. spec. Trichilia Afr. 28, fig. 3, map 3 (1968); Ross, Fl. Natal 216 (1972); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2: 1069 & photos (1973). Type: South Africa, Port Natal (Durban), Gueinzius s.n. (TCD, lecto. of De Wilde, 1968; G!; K!; PRE!; S; SAM!).
Range
Widespread in tropical Africa, but with some major disjunctions; mainly in upland areas from Guinea to Camer-oun and from Ethiopia to South Africa; also in Angola. In South Africa in evergreen forest as far south as Komga District in the eastern Cap; mostly in regions of higher rainfall than T. emetica; from near sea-level to 1 250 m.r Map 41.

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