Hunteria umbellata Hallier F.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Hunteria

Characteristics

Flowers as above (Hunteria elliotii), in dense, terminal heads.
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A tree. It grows 22 m tall. The trunk can be 40 cm across.
Small glabrous, tree 25-40 ft. high
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 7.62 - 10.0
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

An understorey tree of closed forests. Rain forest and gallery forest, also in secondary forest, at elevations up to 600 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows in the rainforest. It grows up to 600 m above sea level.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The pulp of the fruit is eaten.
Uses environmental use food fuel material medicinal poison wood
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
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Distribution

Hunteria umbellata world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone

Conservation status

Hunteria umbellata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:79368-1
WFO ID wfo-0000215682
COL ID 6MFSB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Picralima elliotii Polyadoa elliotii Polyadoa umbellata Hunteria umbellata Picralima gracilis Carpodinus umbellata Picralima umbellata Hunteria mayumbensis Hunteria eburnea Hunteria elliotii