Vitex micrantha Gürke

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Vitex

Characteristics

A tree. It is evergreen and grows 27 m tall. The trunk is 60 cm across. The bark is grey, cracked and scaly. The leaves are opposite and compound. There are 3-5 leaflets arranged like fingers on a hand. The leaflets are broadly oval and 9-12 cm long by 2-3 cm wide.
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Small white flowers in poor, long-pedunculate cymes.
Fairly small, mostly 5-foliolate leaves
Forest tree, 15-80 ft. high
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.6
Mature height (meter) 20.0 - 24.38
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Often an understorey tree of lowland evergreen forest. In Ghana it is strongly associated with base-poor soils.
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A tropical plant. It is an understorey tree of the lowland evergreen forest.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses food gene source material medicinal social use wood
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed. Seeds germinate after about 5 months.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Vitex micrantha world distribution map, present in Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

Conservation status

Vitex micrantha threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:865869-1
WFO ID wfo-0000333272
COL ID 5BL8X
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Vitex longiacuminata Vitex micrantha