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Guibourtia coleosperma [family FABACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Guibourtia coleosperma [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Copaifera coleosperma Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 : 316 (1865); Oliv. in F.T.A. 2 : 314 (1871); Harms in Warb., Kunene-Samb. Exped. 246, pi. 99 (1903); Sim, For. Fl. P.E. Afr. 52 (1909); Harms in Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3,1 : 441, fig. 243 (1915); Dinter in Feddes Repert. 16 : 241 (1919); Bak.f. in J. Bot. 66, Suppl. Polypet. : 150 (1928); Bak.f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 752 (1930); Hutch., Botanist in S.Afr. 476, 479 (1946). Type as above. Copaiba coleosperma (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1 : 172 (1891). Type as above. Copaiva coleosperma (Benth.) Britton in Sc. Surv. Porto Rico & Virgin Islands 6 : 542 (1930). Type as above.
Information
Tree up to 20 m high with a somewhat rounded drooping crown, seldom completely leafless; bole sometimes slightly buttressed. Bark greyish, yellowish- or pale reddish-brown to black, fairly smooth or sometimes roughish on old plants; slash blood-red; young branchlets glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, with a single pair of leaflets, glabrous: petiole 1,5-3,5(4) cm long; leaflets subsessile, asymmetric, (3,4)4-10 cm long, 1,5-4,2 cm wide (in our area), ovate-falcate, the outer margin strongly convex, the inner margin nearly straight or slightly convex, obtuse or acuminate apically, midrib proÂminent and raised on the lower surface, with 7-11 pairs of primary lateral veins, reticulate venation conspicuous on both surfaces, coriaÂceous, glabrous or sometimes very sparingly pubescent basally when young, with scattered pellucid gland-dots. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 1-2 cm long, 0,2 cm wide, rapidly deciduous (fide Leonard in F.C.B. 3 : 364). Inflorescence an axillary or terminal panicle up to 16 cm long, lateral branches up to 9 cm long, glabrous or sometimes very sparingly pubesÂcent whe
Habitat
The timber is hard and heavy and is used for furniture and for various other purposes. The heartwood is attractive, reddish-pink and fine-grained.
Use
2. Guibourtia coleosperma (Benth.) J. Leon, in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 19 : 403 (1949); in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 20 : 274 (1950); in F.C.B. 3 : 364, pi. 13, fig. 28B (1952); Pardy in Rhod. Agric. J. 49 : 171 (1952); O. B. Miller in J. S. Afr. Bot. 18 : 32 (1952); Torre & Hillc. in C.F.A. 2 : 242 (1956); J. L6on. in M6m. Acad. Roy. Belg. Classe Sci. 30,2 : 142, 150, t.l4E, pi. 15, 16 (1957); F. White, For. Fl. N. Rhod. 124, fig. 21, C,D,E (1962); Von Breitenbach, Indig. Trees S.Afr. 3 : 323 (1965); Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 59 : 14 (1967); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2 : 841 (1973); Schreiber in Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. Munchen 11 : 129 (1973). Type: Zambia, Batoka highlands, Kirk (K, holo.!).
Range
Found in Zaire, Angola, South West Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Rhodesia. Almost confined to Kalahari sands; occurs in woodland.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Guibourtia coleosperma [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Copaifera coleosperma Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 : 316 (1865); Oliv. in F.T.A. 2 : 314 (1871); Harms in Warb., Kunene-Samb. Exped. 246, pi. 99 (1903); Sim, For. Fl. P.E. Afr. 52 (1909); Harms in Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3,1 : 441, fig. 243 (1915); Dinter in Feddes Repert. 16 : 241 (1919); Bak.f. in J. Bot. 66, Suppl. Polypet. : 150 (1928); Bak.f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 752 (1930); Hutch., Botanist in S.Afr. 476, 479 (1946). Type as above. Copaiba coleosperma (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1 : 172 (1891). Type as above. Copaiva coleosperma (Benth.) Britton in Sc. Surv. Porto Rico & Virgin Islands 6 : 542 (1930). Type as above.
Information
Tree up to 20 m high with a somewhat rounded drooping crown, seldom completely leafless; bole sometimes slightly buttressed. Bark greyish, yellowish- or pale reddish-brown to black, fairly smooth or sometimes roughish on old plants; slash blood-red; young branchlets glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, with a single pair of leaflets, glabrous: petiole 1,5-3,5(4) cm long; leaflets subsessile, asymmetric, (3,4)4-10 cm long, 1,5-4,2 cm wide (in our area), ovate-falcate, the outer margin strongly convex, the inner margin nearly straight or slightly convex, obtuse or acuminate apically, midrib proÂminent and raised on the lower surface, with 7-11 pairs of primary lateral veins, reticulate venation conspicuous on both surfaces, coriaÂceous, glabrous or sometimes very sparingly pubescent basally when young, with scattered pellucid gland-dots. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 1-2 cm long, 0,2 cm wide, rapidly deciduous (fide Leonard in F.C.B. 3 : 364). Inflorescence an axillary or terminal panicle up to 16 cm long, lateral branches up to 9 cm long, glabrous or sometimes very sparingly pubesÂcent whe
Habitat
The timber is hard and heavy and is used for furniture and for various other purposes. The heartwood is attractive, reddish-pink and fine-grained.
Use
2. Guibourtia coleosperma (Benth.) J. Leon, in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 19 : 403 (1949); in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 20 : 274 (1950); in F.C.B. 3 : 364, pi. 13, fig. 28B (1952); Pardy in Rhod. Agric. J. 49 : 171 (1952); O. B. Miller in J. S. Afr. Bot. 18 : 32 (1952); Torre & Hillc. in C.F.A. 2 : 242 (1956); J. L6on. in M6m. Acad. Roy. Belg. Classe Sci. 30,2 : 142, 150, t.l4E, pi. 15, 16 (1957); F. White, For. Fl. N. Rhod. 124, fig. 21, C,D,E (1962); Von Breitenbach, Indig. Trees S.Afr. 3 : 323 (1965); Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 59 : 14 (1967); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2 : 841 (1973); Schreiber in Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. Munchen 11 : 129 (1973). Type: Zambia, Batoka highlands, Kirk (K, holo.!).
Range
Found in Zaire, Angola, South West Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Rhodesia. Almost confined to Kalahari sands; occurs in woodland.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Guibourtia coleosperma [family FABACEAE]
Common names
Copaifera coleosperma Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 : 316 (1865); Oliv. in F.T.A. 2 : 314 (1871); Harms in Warb., Kunene-Samb. Exped. 246, pi. 99 (1903); Sim, For. Fl. P.E. Afr. 52 (1909); Harms in Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3,1 : 441, fig. 243 (1915); Dinter in Feddes Repert. 16 : 241 (1919); Bak.f. in J. Bot. 66, Suppl. Polypet. : 150 (1928); Bak.f., Leg. Trop. Afr. 3 : 752 (1930); Hutch., Botanist in S.Afr. 476, 479 (1946). Type as above. Copaiba coleosperma (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1 : 172 (1891). Type as above. Copaiva coleosperma (Benth.) Britton in Sc. Surv. Porto Rico & Virgin Islands 6 : 542 (1930). Type as above.
Information
Tree up to 20 m high with a somewhat rounded drooping crown, seldom completely leafless; bole sometimes slightly buttressed. Bark greyish, yellowish- or pale reddish-brown to black, fairly smooth or sometimes roughish on old plants; slash blood-red; young branchlets glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, with a single pair of leaflets, glabrous: petiole 1,5-3,5(4) cm long; leaflets subsessile, asymmetric, (3,4)4-10 cm long, 1,5-4,2 cm wide (in our area), ovate-falcate, the outer margin strongly convex, the inner margin nearly straight or slightly convex, obtuse or acuminate apically, midrib proÂminent and raised on the lower surface, with 7-11 pairs of primary lateral veins, reticulate venation conspicuous on both surfaces, coriaÂceous, glabrous or sometimes very sparingly pubescent basally when young, with scattered pellucid gland-dots. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 1-2 cm long, 0,2 cm wide, rapidly deciduous (fide Leonard in F.C.B. 3 : 364). Inflorescence an axillary or terminal panicle up to 16 cm long, lateral branches up to 9 cm long, glabrous or sometimes very sparingly pubesÂcent whe
Habitat
The timber is hard and heavy and is used for furniture and for various other purposes. The heartwood is attractive, reddish-pink and fine-grained.
Use
2. Guibourtia coleosperma (Benth.) J. Leon, in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 19 : 403 (1949); in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 20 : 274 (1950); in F.C.B. 3 : 364, pi. 13, fig. 28B (1952); Pardy in Rhod. Agric. J. 49 : 171 (1952); O. B. Miller in J. S. Afr. Bot. 18 : 32 (1952); Torre & Hillc. in C.F.A. 2 : 242 (1956); J. L6on. in M6m. Acad. Roy. Belg. Classe Sci. 30,2 : 142, 150, t.l4E, pi. 15, 16 (1957); F. White, For. Fl. N. Rhod. 124, fig. 21, C,D,E (1962); Von Breitenbach, Indig. Trees S.Afr. 3 : 323 (1965); Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 59 : 14 (1967); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2 : 841 (1973); Schreiber in Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. Munchen 11 : 129 (1973). Type: Zambia, Batoka highlands, Kirk (K, holo.!).
Range
Found in Zaire, Angola, South West Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Rhodesia. Almost confined to Kalahari sands; occurs in woodland.
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