Deinbollia xanthocarpa Radlk.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Deinbollia

Characteristics

Leaves usually paripinnate (rarely imparipinnate) shortly petiolate to subsessile (lowest pair of leaflets, at or near the base of the rhachis, resembling stipules); rhachis usually narrowly winged, sometimes marginate or ribbed, pubescent; leaflets 3–9-jugate, subsessile or very shortly petiolulate; leaflet-lamina up to 8(10) × 3(5·5) cm., usually oblong to narrowly oblong, sometimes oblong-elliptic or elliptic, chartaceous, pubescent to shortly pilose mainly on the nerves and reticulation of the under surface, apex often obtuse or retuse but sometimes acute and apiculate, margin entire and often undulate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 6–12 pairs.
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A scrambling shrub or small tree. It grows to 7 m high. The leaves are 8 cm long by 3 cm wide. There can be 3-9 pairs of leaflets. The flower arrangement is 20 cm long. The fruit has 1-2 egg-shaped parts. These are yellow and hairy. They are edible.
Shrub or small tree, up to 7 m high. Leaves with 3-9 pairs of opposite to subopposite leaflets, leaf rhachis usually narrowly winged, petiole not longer than 10 mm or leaf subsessile. Flowers cream.
Stamens 16; anthers 1–8 mm. long (1·5 mm. long in staminodes of female flowers); filaments 3 mm. long (2 mm. long in staminodes), pilose.
Inflorescence c. 20 cm. long, terminal, once-twice-branched, often fuscous-tomentose especially when young.
Small tree up to 6–7 m. tall or bush; branchlets tomentose or densely pubescent, eventually glabrescent.
Fruit 1–2-coccous; cocci yellow, 12–14 × 6–9 mm., obovoid to subglobose, tomentose, glabrescent, edible.
Sepals 4·5–6·5 × 2·2–2·5 mm., elliptic, silvery-pubescent outside except where covered by imbrication.
Flowers white, in shortly stalked cymules; pedicels c. 1·5 mm. long, fulvous-to fuscous-tomentose.
Petals 4·5–6 × 4–5·5 mm., elliptic, pilose-ciliate.
Ovary 3(5)-lobed, tomentose; style 4 mm. long.
Disk glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 7.0
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows at low altitude in mixed woodland. It also grows near rivers.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The fruit is eaten as a snack.
Uses medicinal
Edible fruits
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Deinbollia xanthocarpa world distribution map, present in Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:782756-1
WFO ID wfo-0000639393
COL ID 6CFZL
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Synonyms

Sapindus xanthocarpus Deinbollia marginata Deinbollia xanthocarpa