Trilepisium madagascariense DC.

• Region

  Africa

• Country

  Ghana

• State/Province

  Ashanti

• Locality

  Sekyere. Bobiri Forest Reserve.

• Coordinates

  6.63, -1.28

• Location Notes

  [Africa]

• Distribution

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THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
Plants of Ghana
No. 84
Trllepisium madaoascariense
MORACEAE
GHANA. Ashanti: Sekyere. Bobiri Forest
Reserve. 6°38’N, 1 ° 17 ’ W. Moist
semi-deciduous forest with many lianas.
Humus of topsoil up to 20cm deep. Avg.of
1500mm/y rain.
Tree with dense, dark crown, 31m tall.
Branchlets have characteristic circular leaf
scars. Bark brittle, smooth, brown. Slash
yellow, turns brown; foetid smell; white,
copious, sticky latex. Leaves simple,
narrowly elliptic, unequal base; few, tiny,
simple hairs.
S. Kisseadoo	13	Nov	1988
Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
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