WorldFloraDB - Terminalia macroptera

Characteristics

Small tree up to 13 m. high; bark dark grey to black, deeply fissured; branchlets smooth, glabrous, purplish black, becoming light brown and corky with age.. Leaves spirally arranged, sessile or almost so; lamina broadly oblanceolate to narrowly or broadly elliptic-oblanceolate, up to 37 cm. long and 17 cm. wide, apex rounded to obtuse or cuspidate or shortly cuneate, base cuneate and decurrent, glabrous or nearly so, margin undulate; lateral nerves 12–20 pairs; petiole, if present, up to 2 cm. long, often winged or partially winged.. Inflorescences of lateral spikes up to 22 cm. long; peduncle up to 4 cm. long, glabrous or very sparsely pilose.. Flowers white, glabrous outside.. Fruit (fig. 12/15, p. 79) reddish brown, oblong-elliptic, 8–11 cm. long, 3.5–8 cm. wide, apex rounded to obtuse, emarginate or with apical peg ± 1 mm. long, glabrous; stipe 6–7 mm. long.

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A shrub or small tree. It grows 8-13 m high. The crown is open and spreading. The leaves are light green.

Savannah tree, to 30 ft. high

Large, bright green leaves

Black fissured bark

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	9.57 - 11.5
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

Open woodland; wooded grassland with tall grass-cover on black cotton soil or on rocky slopes; fine gravelly hills and plateau; lateritic pans; margins of flooded plains; at elevations from 160-1,400 metres.

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A tropical plant. Kano State Northern Nigeria. It grows in moist situations in the savannah.

Usually in relatively moist situations.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

It is probably mainly used as medicine.

Uses	animal food charcoal dye environmental use food food additive fuel gum material medicinal tea wood
Edible	fruits leaves stems
Therapeutic use	Abdominal pain (leaf), Antipyretics (leaf), General tonic for rejuvenation (leaf), Antipyretics (root), Diarrhea (root), Dysentery (root), Perfume (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Boil (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

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