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Protomegabaria stapfiana (Beille) Hutch. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

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)

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

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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