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Borassus aethiopum Mart. [family PALMAE]
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Names
Borassus aethiopum Mart. [family PALMAE], Münch. Gel. Anzeig. 639 (1838), 46 (1839), and in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 220, tt. 108, 121, 162; Beccari in Webbia 4: 325 (1914), and in Palme Borass. 8 (1924).
Borassus flabellifer var. aethiopum (Mart.) Warb. [family PALMAE], in Engl., PflOstAfrB: 20, C: 130 (1895); F.T.A8: 117.
Information
The tallest of African palms, often 70 ft. high and sometimes as much as 100 ft., with trunk swollen above the middle; in dry savanna.The palm is dioecious, the female conspicuous by ito large orange fruits.
Habitat
; in dry savanna.
Range
Widely distributed in tropical Africa.
Distribution
Sen.: Brunner!Iv. C.: Assinie Chev. 16312! Béréby Oldeman 625!Ghana: Ejura, Ashanti Chipp 773!N. Nig.: Nupe Barter 792!
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Names
Borassus aethiopum Mart. [family PALMAE], Münch. Gel. Anzeig. 639 (1838), 46 (1839), and in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 220, tt. 108, 121, 162; Beccari in Webbia 4: 325 (1914), and in Palme Borass. 8 (1924).
Borassus flabellifer var. aethiopum (Mart.) Warb. [family PALMAE], in Engl., PflOstAfrB: 20, C: 130 (1895); F.T.A8: 117.
Information
The tallest of African palms, often 70 ft. high and sometimes as much as 100 ft., with trunk swollen above the middle; in dry savanna.The palm is dioecious, the female conspicuous by ito large orange fruits.
Habitat
; in dry savanna.
Range
Widely distributed in tropical Africa.
Distribution
Sen.: Brunner!Iv. C.: Assinie Chev. 16312! Béréby Oldeman 625!Ghana: Ejura, Ashanti Chipp 773!N. Nig.: Nupe Barter 792!
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Names
Borassus aethiopum Mart. [family PALMAE], Münch. Gel. Anzeig. 639 (1838), 46 (1839), and in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 220, tt. 108, 121, 162; Beccari in Webbia 4: 325 (1914), and in Palme Borass. 8 (1924).
Borassus flabellifer var. aethiopum (Mart.) Warb. [family PALMAE], in Engl., PflOstAfrB: 20, C: 130 (1895); F.T.A8: 117.
Information
The tallest of African palms, often 70 ft. high and sometimes as much as 100 ft., with trunk swollen above the middle; in dry savanna.The palm is dioecious, the female conspicuous by ito large orange fruits.
Habitat
; in dry savanna.
Range
Widely distributed in tropical Africa.
Distribution
Sen.: Brunner!Iv. C.: Assinie Chev. 16312! Béréby Oldeman 625!Ghana: Ejura, Ashanti Chipp 773!N. Nig.: Nupe Barter 792!
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