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Uapaca togoensis Pax

Family : Euphorbiaceae

Family (APGIII) : PHYLLANTHACEAE

Protologue : Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 371 (1905)

Information on the genus : Uapaca

Status

Status for TA :

accepted (present)

Synonym(s) Heterotypic

=Uapaca chevalieri Beille (1908) Pl. Ecol. Evol. 146(1): 89 (2013).

=Uapaca somon Aubrév. & Leandri (1935)

=Uapaca perrotii Beille

=Uapaca guignardii A. Chev. ex Beille

=Uapaca guignardii var. sudanica Beille

Ecology and distribution

Trop. Afr.

Biology :

Tree 10-20 m, with straight bole, cylindric, 1 m in girth, branching to form a dense widely-spreading crown; commonly without buttresses and stiltroots (very rarely aerial roots); sometimes male and female flowers on the same tree.

Ecology :

Wooded savanna; sometimes on dry ground: lateritic hardpan or fine gravel; gregarious in moist places in long grass savanna, especially in fringing forest; secondary forest; 520m alt. (Cameroon).

Bibliography for Tropical Africa :

Pl. Ecol. Evol. 146(1): 89 (2013).

Bibliography for Southern Africa :

Checklist Flow. Pl. Sub-Saharan Africa : 294 (2006).

Bibliography other :

Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:317 (2012)

More info on :

see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative

see under chg

see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale

see under The International Plant Name Index

see under African Plants - a Photo Guide

Map

Record n°108314

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