Microdesmis puberula Hook.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Pandaceae > Microdesmis

Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. The wood is strong and springy. It can be a creeper. The leaves are narrowly oval and have a pointed tip. They are 5-15 cm long and 2-6 cm wide. It has many male flowers and a few female flowers. The flowers are small and 3-9 mm across. They are orange-yellow and in clusters. The fruit are small and red or black berries. The fruit are edible.
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A forest shrub, or small tree to 50 ft. high
Variable in indumentum and leaf-shape.
Flowers greenish yellow or orange
Fruits red
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 6.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Primary and secondary forest and at forest edges, also in fallow land, at elevations from sea-level up to 1,100 metres.
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A tropical plant. In Nigeria it is recorded at 1,500 m above sea level. It grows in forest regrowth.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.
Uses animal food environmental use food gene source gum material medicinal wood
Edible fruits leaves seeds
Therapeutic use Antivenom (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Bruise (unspecified), Dentifrice (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Fracture (unspecified), Impotency (unspecified), Pediculicide (unspecified), Preventitive(Boil) (unspecified), Pterygium (unspecified), Pulicide (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Tumor(Breast) (unspecified), Enema (unspecified), Headache (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Microdesmis puberula world distribution map, present in Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Cabo Verde, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo, and Uganda

Conservation status

Microdesmis puberula threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:352299-1
WFO ID wfo-0000243105
COL ID 42V77
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Microdesmis zenkeri Microdesmis puberula