Terminalia superba Engl. & Diels

Superb terminalia (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Combretaceae > Terminalia

Characteristics

A large tree. It grows 60 m tall. The trunk has buttresses at the base. The leaves are 10 cm long by 5 cm wide. The tree loses its leaves in the dry season. The flowers are produced just before the new leaves. The flowers are small and white. They are in loose spikes 10-12 cm long. The fruit has 2 wings.
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Large thin buttresses, clean straight bole and rather flat crown
Forest tree, to 150 ft. (rarely to 200 ft.) high
Bark ashy grey.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 40.0 - 45.0
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in moist evergreen and semi-deciduous forests. It grows up to 1,000 m above sea level.
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A characteristic canopy tree of tropical high secondary forest areas with a dry season of about 4 months.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

Uses charcoal coffee substitute dye environmental use fiber fuel material medicinal timber wood
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown by seeds. They germinate in 32 days. It can be grown from stumps.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) 1
Optimum temperature (C°) 22 - 30
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Terminalia superba world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:171417-1
WFO ID wfo-0000408519
COL ID 55GFQ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 807553
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Synonyms

Terminalia superba