Lecaniodiscus cupanioides Planch.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Lecaniodiscus

Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It grows 10-15 m high. The trunk is 20 cm across. The branches are low and the crown is spreading. The leaves are compound and have alternate leaflets along the stalk. The leaves are oval and taper to a short tip. The flowers have a disk round them.
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A small tree, or shrub, 5–30 ft. high, with spreading crown
Flowers greenish-yellow or whitish, fragrant
Ripe fruits red or yellowish, indehiscent.
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Mature width (meter) 0.2
Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in small forest clumps in the savannah zone in West Africa. It can be in seasonally flooded forests and along riverbanks.
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Forest outliers in the savannah zone.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The sweet pulp of the fruit is eaten. The flowers are used for preparing aromatic water.
Uses animal food food fuel invertebrate food medicinal wood
Edible arils flowers fruits seeds
Therapeutic use Fever (unspecified), Liver (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Abdomen (unspecified), Abscess (unspecified), Burn (unspecified), Sweetener (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Lecaniodiscus cupanioides world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Jamaica, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda

Conservation status

Lecaniodiscus cupanioides threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:783444-1
WFO ID wfo-0000445972
COL ID 3SRLK
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Synonyms

Lecaniodiscus cupanioides