Xylopia staudtii | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Magnoliales |
Family: | Annonaceae |
Genus: | Xylopia |
Species: | X. staudtii
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Binomial name | |
Xylopia staudtii | |
Synonyms [2] [3] | |
Xylopicrum staudtii (Engl. & Diels) Kuntze |
Xylopia staudtii Engl & Diels is a tall tree within the Annonaceae family, it can grow up to 50 meters tall, the tallest height of the African Xylopia trees. [4] It occurs in forest and freshwater swamps in West Africa. [5]
The species has a straight and slender trunk with branching stilts roots and sometimes stilted peg-roots or pneumatophores, [5] its diameter as measured by the d.b.h. can be up to 80 cm. [4] Larger, somewhat leathery and discolourous leaf blades, paler abaxially, measures between 5.1 -11.8 long and 2.0 - 5.6 cm wide. [4] Leaf-blades are oblanceolate to obovate and sometimes elliptical outlined, blunt to acuminate apex, cuneate at the base, and decurrent on petiole. [4] Fruits, up to 5 borne on a pedicel, green exterior and scarlet interior, oblong shaped, thick walled and sparsely pubescent to glabrate. [4]
Occurs in West and Central Africa in high forest or swampy forest zones. Species is widely spread in the Takamanda Reserve in Cameroun. [4]
Locals use stem bark extracts to treat dysentery in Cameroun and cold in Côte d'Ivoire. [6]