Protomegabaria stapfiana (Beille) Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 2
Names
Protomegabaria stapfiana (Beille) Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Common names
Trade senan (the timber, Ivory Coast). SIERRA LEONE: KONO gbaŋgfoboi (S&F) bogboi (S&F) MENDE gbσgbσ(-i) (FCD; S&F) LIBERIA: DAN dó (GK) KRU-BASA wah (C&R) IVORY COAST: ABE mbraua (Aub.) djilika (A.Chev.) djirika (A.Chev.) ABURE sanié (A.Chev.) AKAN-FANTE emuain-kain (A.Chev.) emuin-kwin (A.Chev.) AKYE senan (A.Chev.) ANYI assa-boguié (A.Chev.) guahélé (Aub.) AVIKAM bapi (A.Chev.) bopi (A.Chev.) ‘KRU’ klaklé (Aub.) KRU-GREBO sulé (Aub.) KYAMA siédzo (A.Chev.) NZEMA emuain-kain (A.Chev. fide JMD) emuin-kwin (A.Chev. fide JMD) sulo-koba (A.Chev. fide JMD) GHANA: AKAN-FANTE koain (JMD) WASA agyahere (auctt.); if the tree is stilt-rooted (CV) kwintan if the tree is not stilt-rooted (CV) subète (FRI) subèto (FRI) ANYI agyehyele (FRI) NZEMA agyehyele (FRI)
Uses
Products: building materials Products: carpentry and related applications Products: fuel and lighting
Products
trade: Senan
Description
A rain-forest tree to 30 m high with bole up to 2 m girth, low-branching, not buttressed in closed-forest or with prop-roots, locally abundant in swampy sites from Sierra Leone to W Cameroons, Gabon, Principe and Sao Tome.Sap-wood is pale brown; heart-wood red or pinkish-brown, speckled or veined, often spongy and brittle. It does not appear to resist decay, splits easily and is classified as a semi-hardwood (3–5). It is used for firewood (1) and sawn for planks (2, 3) in Liberia, and seems to be usable for carpentry and certain structural work (4).
References
References:1 Cooper 109, K. 2. Cooper 294, K. 3. Cooper & Record, 1931: 53–56, with timber characters. 4. Dalziel, 1937: 158. 5. Savill & Fox, 1967, 122.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Protomegabaria stapfiana (Beille) Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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