Neolemonniera clitandrifolia

Botanical Description

Neolemonniera clitandrifolia is a tree with a dome-shaped crown; it can grow up to 35 metres tall. The bole can be up to 90cm in diameter, with flayed buttresses up to 3 metres high, often extending into lateral roots that are surface creeping for some distance from the tree[ 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 plant is harvested from the wild as a local source of food, oil and wood. Much of this plant's habitat has been lost to agriculture, mining and logging, and a rapid decline in population numbers has been observed[ 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 plant is classified as 'Endangered' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2011)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].