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Trichilia emetica

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Name

Identification
Trichilia emetica Vahl [family MELIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Trichilia emetica
Common name
  • dafi (JB; K&A) si falfébi (Aub.; JB) si falsi (JB) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • (Fogny) bugiêgé (K&A) ébôkudiâg (K&A) énabunul (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ã-gla ñigri (JB; K&A) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • roka (from Arabic); mafura., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • bu diènké (JB) bu riet (auctt.) ya lékov (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • ga-ŋέsy hany (FG&G) (SENEGAL, BEDIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • mafouraire., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for TRICHILIA emetica Vahl [family MELIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by A. S. Hassan & M. Cheek [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
TRICHILIA emetica Vahl [family MELIACEAE], (1790);
TRICHILIA roka Chiov. [family MELIACEAE], (1923), nom. illeg. Fig. 154. [type as above]
TRICHILIA somalense Chiov. [family MELIACEAE], (1916);. type: S3, “Hacacca”, Paoli 515 (FT holo.).
TRICHILIA jubensis Chiov. [family MELIACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, near “Alessandra”, Tozzi 326 (FT holo., K iso.).
Information
Evergreen or semi-evergreen tree, usually 10–15 m high; crown dense, spreading; foliage very dark green; bark dark grey or dark brown, rough or smooth. Leaves up to 28 cm long; leaflets usually 9–11, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, usually up to 15 x 5 cm, nearly always broadest near the middle and with the apex of lateral leaflets rounded, emarginate or broadly acute without a hollow curve; lateral nerves usually in 11–18 closely set pairs; lower surface sparsely to densely puberulous with short, weak curly or flexuous hairs, usually drying olive-green or pale yellow-brown. Inflorescence usually condensed and many-flowered. Calyx 0.35–0.5 cm long, tomentellous, lobed almost to the base; lobes suborbicular, imbricate. Corolla (0.7–)1–1.6 cm long. Staminal tube usually 0.8–1.1 cm long. Capsule 1.8–2.5 cm in diam., usually crowded at the end of the branchlets. Seeds black, basal part fleshy, scarlet, resembling an aril.
Range
N2; C2; S2, 3 widespread in Africa from Senegal to the Red Sea and southwards through East and Central Africa to the Caprivi Strip, Botswana and South Africa (Natal)
Altitude range
100–610 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 16295; Aronson & al. 5; Hemming & Watson 3158.
Distribution (external)
Arabian Peninsula
Notes
Asalboned, janchi, mafurataly, mafuraire (Som.). Planted for shade and exploited for seed oil and medicinal properties.

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