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trees. It occurs in forest and freshwater swamps in West Africa.

Description

The species has a straight and slender trunk with branching stilts roots and sometimes stilted peg-roots or pneumatophores, its diameter as measured by the d.b.h. can be up to 80 cm. Larger, somewhat leathery and discolourous leaf blades, paler abaxially, measures between 5.1 -11.8 long and 2.0 - 5.6 cm wide. Leaf-blades are oblanceolate to obovate and sometimes elliptical outlined, blunt to acuminate apex, cuneate at the base, and decurrent on petiole. Fruits, up to 5 borne on a

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, green exterior and scarlet interior, oblong shaped, thick walled and sparsely pubescent to glabrate.

Distribution

Occurs in West and Central Africa in high forest or swampy forest zones. Species is widely spread in the Takamanda Reserve in Cameroun.

Uses

Locals use stem bark extracts to treat dysentery in Cameroun and cold in

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15366671 Flora of West Tropical Africa Xylopia