Meliaceae FAMILY Vulnerable

Leplaea thompsonii

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

The wood dust may cause irritation to the skin and mucous membranes[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The bark is used as a fish poison[ 886 Title A taxonomic revision of the reinstated genus Leplaea and the newly recognized genus Neoguarea Publication Plant Ecology and Evolution 145 (2): 209-241, 2012 Author Koenen E.J.M.; de Wilde J.J.F.E. Website http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2012.656 Publisher The Royal Botanical Society; Belgium. Year 2012 ISBN 2032-3913 Description A review of the genus Guarea in Africa, it excludes all the African species from that genus, placing the majority of them in Leplaea and one in Neoguarea. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].

Botanical Description

Black guarea is an evergreen, medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 metres tall with occasional specimens up to 55 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The straight, cylindrical bole can be free of branches for up to 20 metres, often fluted, up to 150 cm in diameter, sometimes with short, blunt buttresses at the base[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and timber, it is also exploited commercially and traded internationally[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. A quite widespread species, but it usually occurs in low densities and is usually restricted to undisturbed forest. It is included in the IUCN Red list, where it is classified as 'Vulnerable' because of habitat loss and degradation, and selective felling[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWestern tropical Africa - Liberia to Cameroon, south to Gabon, Congo and DR Congo.

HabitatA sub-canopy tree in lowland evergreen rainforest, usually primary forest. It is most common in moist evergreen forest, especially in undisturbed forest, but it occurs also in moister types of semi-deciduous forest[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 886 Title A taxonomic revision of the reinstated genus Leplaea and the newly recognized genus Neoguarea Publication Plant Ecology and Evolution 145 (2): 209-241, 2012 Author Koenen E.J.M.; de Wilde J.J.F.E. Website http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2012.656 Publisher The Royal Botanical Society; Belgium. Year 2012 ISBN 2032-3913 Description A review of the genus Guarea in Africa, it excludes all the African species from that genus, placing the majority of them in Leplaea and one in Neoguarea. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].