Elaeodendron buchananii (Loes.) Loes. |
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Information on the genus : Elaeodendron |
Basionym : Cassine buchananii Loes. |
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Status
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Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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Synonym(s) Homotypic |
Cassine buchananii Loes. (1893) |
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Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
=Elaeodendron kamerunense (Loes.) Villiers |
=Cassine glauca var. kamerunensis (Loes.) R. Wilczek |
=Elaeodendron glaucum var. kamerunense Loes. |
=Cassine kamerunensis (Loes.) Govaerts (1999) |
=Elaeodendron afzelii f. djalonense Roberty |
=Elaeodendron warneckei Loes. (1907) |
=Elaeodendron keniense Loes. (1926) |
=Elaeodendron friesianum Loes. (1926) |
=Cassine albivenosa (Chiov.) Cufod. |
=Elaeodendron albivenosum Chiov. (1932) |
=Elaeodendron afzelii Loes. (1900) |
=Elaeodendron stolzii Loes. (1934) |
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Ecology and distribution |
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Biology : |
Shrub or tree 1-30 m tall; trunk to 25 cm Ø, much branched; bark purplish brown, prominently lenticellate; branches 4-lined or not, flattened to quadrangular and pale grey when young, becoming terete and vinous red to red-brown […]Poisonous. |
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Ecology : |
(Dry) evergreen forest and thickets; riverine forest; deciduous woodland (on termite mounds); grasslands; sometimes in secondary communities; deciduous forest edges; Podocarpus latifolius forest. 1000( ?and less)-2290 m alt. |
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Related to E. xylocarpum (Vent.) DC. from Central America, sharing dioecious flowers with petaloid staminodes.E. kamerunense may well be regarded as a different, good species; more material and fieldwork are needed. |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- DARBYSHIRE, I. KORDOFAMI, M. & AL. (2015). The plants of Sudan and South Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing : 212
Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- ENGLER, H.G.A. & K. A. E. PRANTL (1897). Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed. 2 III, 5, Nachtr. 1: 221-225
- KLOPPER R.R., CHATELAIN C,. & AL. (2006). Checklist Flowering Plants of Sub-Saharan Africa. Sabonet report 42 : 207
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