Terminalia avicennioides Guill. & Perr.

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Combretaceae > Terminalia

Characteristics

Mature leaves greyish-green above and white beneath, drying brownish
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Flowers and leafy shoots pinkish when young
Savannah tree, to 30 ft. high
Sometimes extremely abundant.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 7.57
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Savannah; sometimes extremely abundant; low-lying sandy plain, old cultivated ground; dry Anogeissus forest; at elevations up to 1,600 metres. Savannah woodland.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food charcoal dye environmental use fuel material medicinal oil poison wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Incense (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

Terminalia avicennioides world distribution map, present in Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Chad, and Togo

Conservation status

Terminalia avicennioides threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:170970-1
WFO ID wfo-0000407020
COL ID 55FZZ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Terminalia avicennioides Terminalia lecardii Terminalia dictyoneura