Terminalia superba Engl. & Diels

• 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
BOTANICAL GARDEN
Plants of Ghana
No. 39
Terminalia superba
COMBRETACEAE
 ^^TANICAL GARDEN
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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.
Emergent tree with leaves crowded at ends of
twigs, 46m tall. Crown flat. Round, clean,
straight bole. Tall, plank buttresses. Very
hard wood. Fibrous, smooth, brown bark,
flaky when old. Slash orange, turning brown.
Simple, elliptic leaves with simple, brown
hairs.
S. Kisseadoo
20 Nov 1988
Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
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