WorldFloraDB - Khaya senegalensis

Characteristics

Trees to 25 m tall or more. Bark exfoliating. Young branches with dark grayish brown lenticels. Leaves 15-60 cm or more; petiole and rachis cylindric, glabrous; leaflets 8-32, subopposite to alternate, apical 2 pairs opposite; petiolules 5-10 mm; leaflet blades basally on rachis ovate but apically on rachis oblong to elliptic, 7-17 × 3-6 cm, abaxially greenish white, adaxially dark green, secondary veins 9-14 on each side of midvein and prominent on both surfaces when dry, base broadly cuneate to ± rounded, margin entire, apex mucronate to acuminate. Thyrses shorter than leaves, glabrous. Sepals 4, distinct, oblong, ca. 1 mm. Petals 4, oblong to obovate, ca. 3 mm, glabrous. Staminal tube urceolate. Ovary ovoid, usually 4-locular, with amphitropous ovules. Capsule globose, woody, septifragal from apex when mature; pericarp thick. Seeds ellipsoid to suborbicular, broad, margin with a round membranous wing.

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Tree up to 20 m. tall; bole often crooked; buttresses short or absent; crown rounded.. Apart from the characters given in the key, very similar to K. anthotheca and K. grandifoliola, but usually smaller in all its parts.. Leaves up to 25 cm. long, bright green and shining above, pale greyish green beneath; leaflets 4–10.. Panicles up to 20 cm. long.. Capsule up to 5 cm. in diameter.

A tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk is straight and clear for 10 m. The trunk is 1 m across. The bark is brown or dark grey. The leaves have leaflets in pairs. The leaves are 20 cm long with 3-6 pairs of leaflets. The fruit are round woody capsules 5-10 cm across. They split into 4 segments. The seeds are brown and in 4 rows.

Sepals pale green; petals and staminal tube cream, the latter suffused pink below; stigma yellow

A tree with shining foliage, up to 100 ft. high, with wide dense crown and thick stem

Pending.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	monoecy
Pollination	-
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Mature width (meter)	1.0
Mature height (meter)	25.0
Root system	tap-root
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

Riverine forests and is scattered within the higher-rainfall savannah woodlands. In moister areas it is found on uplands, but is restricted to riparian habitats or stream bottoms that extend into the savannah in the drier portions of the range.

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It is a tropical plant. It grows in areas where the rainfall is 650-1,300 mm each year distributed over 4-7 months. It grows in woodland and savannah woodland. It can be on river banks. In Queen Sirikit BG. In Townsville palmetum.

Margins of monsoon vine forests, creek lines, rainforest, disturbed areas, gardens.

In savannah and especially by streams in the savannah regions.

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Usage

Planted as an ornamental, shade and street tree. Wood and traditional medicinal uses in Africa.

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The young shoots and roots are used as chewing sticks.

Uses	animal food bee plant dye environmental use food fuel invertebrate food material medicinal oil ornamental poison social use timber vertebrate poison wood
Edible	roots seeds shoots
Therapeutic use	Diuretics (aerial part), Abdominal pain (bark), Anthelmintics (bark), Antiemetics (bark), Anti-inflammatory agents (bark), Antipyretics (bark), Appetite stimulants (bark), Astringents (bark), Malaria (bark), Menstruation disturbances (bark), Menstruation-inducing agents (bark), Shock, cardiogenic (bark), Gastrointestinal diseases (flower), Syphilis (flower), Anthelmintics (fruit), Antiviral agents (fruit), Diabetes mellitus (fruit), Leprosy (fruit), Skin diseases (fruit), Wounds and injuries (fruit), Anti-bacterial agents (leaf), Antifungal agents (leaf), Liver diseases (seed), Repellant(Insect) (unspecified), Insecticides (unspecified), Anti-inflammatory agents (whole plant excluding root)
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds. Seeds need to be planted fresh.

Mode	seedlings
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Optimum temperature (C°)	29 - 38
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