Lannea nigritana (Scott Elliot) Keay

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Anacardiaceae > Lannea

Characteristics

A small tree. It grows 15 m high. Very young leaflets can be hairy. The leaves are compound and have leaflets along the stalk. There are 3-6 pairs of leaflets and one at the end. It loses its leaves after fruiting. The flowers are yellow. The fruit are small and black. The are oval and fleshy. They are 7 mm long by 5 mm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 13.5
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Environment

Extreme dry types of forest (var. nigritana); stony soil in coastal savannah; fringing forest, forest gallery; niayes; doleritic plateaux; drier parts of secondary growth of the savannah in the forest zone; at elevations from 5-718 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in the drier savannah forest zone in West Africa.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses food material medicinal wood
Edible fruits
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Lannea nigritana world distribution map, present in Benin, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo

Conservation status

Lannea nigritana threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:69793-1
WFO ID wfo-0000360234
COL ID 3S7GG
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lannea nigritana Odina nigritana Odina oghigee Lannea afzelii Lannea glaberrima Lannea grossularia Lannea nigritana var. nigritana