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Canarium schweinfurthii Engl. [family BURSERACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 263, (1963) Author: H. Wild
Names
Canarium schweinfurthii Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 145 (1883). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 305 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 697 (1958). — Troupin, F.C.B. 7: 144 (1958). — Leenhouts, Mon. Gen. Canarium in Blumea, 9: 382, fig. 20 (1959). — White, F.F.N.R.: 173 (1962). TAB. 53 fig. A. Type from the Sudan.
Information
Tree up to 30 (45) m. tall (but often less in our area); bark grey, rough; crown flattish and much branched; young branches densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves up to 50 cm. long; petiole up to c. 5 cm. long, ferruginous-pubescent; rhachis and petiole flattened above, semicircular in section below, often slightly winged at the edges towards the base; leaflets 8–12 (23)-jugate, up to 15 (18) × 4 (5·5) cm., oblong, apex acuminate, margins entire, base cordate, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent above, ± densely hairy beneath, especially on the nerves, nerves and veins moderately prominent above, more prominent below; petiolules 1–5 mm. long, densely pubescent. Flowers in dense panicles up to 30 cm. long; branches of inflorescence ferruginous-tomentellous; bracts caducous, 1–2 cm. long, ovate-triangular to lanceolate-triangular, ferruginously tomentellous; pedicels 1–5 mm. long, ferruginously tomentellous. Calyx c. 1 cm. long, infundibuliform, lobed about 1/2-way, ferruginous-tomentellous outside and within. Petals 0·6–1·2 cm. long, lanceolate, keeled, greyish-tomentellous outside, glabrous within. Stamens with filaments c. 0·4 mm. long, inserted on the cylindric disk, glabrous; anthers oblong (in female flowers c. 2 mm. long, with the thecae sparsely pubescent). Disk8 cylindric, pubescent in male flowers. Ovary ovoid to obconic, glabrous; style c. 2 mm. long; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit purplish, up to 4 × 2 cm., plum-like, ellipsoid, usually mucronulate; endocarp almost as long as the fruit, hard and trigonously spindle-shaped.
Habitat
Riverine forest and forest patches or remaining as isolated trees probably because of the destruction of other forest species.
Distribution
Zambia N Abercorn Distr., near Chileshi village, fl. & fr. 30.xii.1955, Kerfoot 41 (FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Congo
Senegal
Guinea
Portuguese Guinea
Sierra Leone
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Nigeria
Togoland
Cameroons
Ubangi-Chari
Sudan
Tanganyika
Notes
The wood is said to secrete oil and is used for canoe making. The endocarp is used by children as spinning tops and the fruit is eaten by birds. The species is said to be very rare in N. Rhodesia (Kerfoot).
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 263, (1963) Author: H. Wild
Names
Canarium schweinfurthii Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 145 (1883). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 305 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 697 (1958). — Troupin, F.C.B. 7: 144 (1958). — Leenhouts, Mon. Gen. Canarium in Blumea, 9: 382, fig. 20 (1959). — White, F.F.N.R.: 173 (1962). TAB. 53 fig. A. Type from the Sudan.
Information
Tree up to 30 (45) m. tall (but often less in our area); bark grey, rough; crown flattish and much branched; young branches densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves up to 50 cm. long; petiole up to c. 5 cm. long, ferruginous-pubescent; rhachis and petiole flattened above, semicircular in section below, often slightly winged at the edges towards the base; leaflets 8–12 (23)-jugate, up to 15 (18) × 4 (5·5) cm., oblong, apex acuminate, margins entire, base cordate, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent above, ± densely hairy beneath, especially on the nerves, nerves and veins moderately prominent above, more prominent below; petiolules 1–5 mm. long, densely pubescent. Flowers in dense panicles up to 30 cm. long; branches of inflorescence ferruginous-tomentellous; bracts caducous, 1–2 cm. long, ovate-triangular to lanceolate-triangular, ferruginously tomentellous; pedicels 1–5 mm. long, ferruginously tomentellous. Calyx c. 1 cm. long, infundibuliform, lobed about 1/2-way, ferruginous-tomentellous outside and within. Petals 0·6–1·2 cm. long, lanceolate, keeled, greyish-tomentellous outside, glabrous within. Stamens with filaments c. 0·4 mm. long, inserted on the cylindric disk, glabrous; anthers oblong (in female flowers c. 2 mm. long, with the thecae sparsely pubescent). Disk8 cylindric, pubescent in male flowers. Ovary ovoid to obconic, glabrous; style c. 2 mm. long; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit purplish, up to 4 × 2 cm., plum-like, ellipsoid, usually mucronulate; endocarp almost as long as the fruit, hard and trigonously spindle-shaped.
Habitat
Riverine forest and forest patches or remaining as isolated trees probably because of the destruction of other forest species.
Distribution
Zambia N Abercorn Distr., near Chileshi village, fl. & fr. 30.xii.1955, Kerfoot 41 (FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Congo
Senegal
Guinea
Portuguese Guinea
Sierra Leone
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Nigeria
Togoland
Cameroons
Ubangi-Chari
Sudan
Tanganyika
Notes
The wood is said to secrete oil and is used for canoe making. The endocarp is used by children as spinning tops and the fruit is eaten by birds. The species is said to be very rare in N. Rhodesia (Kerfoot).
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 263, (1963) Author: H. Wild
Names
Canarium schweinfurthii Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 145 (1883). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 305 (1951). — Keay, F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 697 (1958). — Troupin, F.C.B. 7: 144 (1958). — Leenhouts, Mon. Gen. Canarium in Blumea, 9: 382, fig. 20 (1959). — White, F.F.N.R.: 173 (1962). TAB. 53 fig. A. Type from the Sudan.
Information
Tree up to 30 (45) m. tall (but often less in our area); bark grey, rough; crown flattish and much branched; young branches densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves up to 50 cm. long; petiole up to c. 5 cm. long, ferruginous-pubescent; rhachis and petiole flattened above, semicircular in section below, often slightly winged at the edges towards the base; leaflets 8–12 (23)-jugate, up to 15 (18) × 4 (5·5) cm., oblong, apex acuminate, margins entire, base cordate, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent above, ± densely hairy beneath, especially on the nerves, nerves and veins moderately prominent above, more prominent below; petiolules 1–5 mm. long, densely pubescent. Flowers in dense panicles up to 30 cm. long; branches of inflorescence ferruginous-tomentellous; bracts caducous, 1–2 cm. long, ovate-triangular to lanceolate-triangular, ferruginously tomentellous; pedicels 1–5 mm. long, ferruginously tomentellous. Calyx c. 1 cm. long, infundibuliform, lobed about 1/2-way, ferruginous-tomentellous outside and within. Petals 0·6–1·2 cm. long, lanceolate, keeled, greyish-tomentellous outside, glabrous within. Stamens with filaments c. 0·4 mm. long, inserted on the cylindric disk, glabrous; anthers oblong (in female flowers c. 2 mm. long, with the thecae sparsely pubescent). Disk8 cylindric, pubescent in male flowers. Ovary ovoid to obconic, glabrous; style c. 2 mm. long; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit purplish, up to 4 × 2 cm., plum-like, ellipsoid, usually mucronulate; endocarp almost as long as the fruit, hard and trigonously spindle-shaped.
Habitat
Riverine forest and forest patches or remaining as isolated trees probably because of the destruction of other forest species.
Distribution
Zambia N Abercorn Distr., near Chileshi village, fl. & fr. 30.xii.1955, Kerfoot 41 (FHO; K).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Congo
Senegal
Guinea
Portuguese Guinea
Sierra Leone
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Nigeria
Togoland
Cameroons
Ubangi-Chari
Sudan
Tanganyika
Notes
The wood is said to secrete oil and is used for canoe making. The endocarp is used by children as spinning tops and the fruit is eaten by birds. The species is said to be very rare in N. Rhodesia (Kerfoot).
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