Garcinia kola
Guttiferae
Habit
Tree
Fern
No
Predominant Habitat
Forest
Geographic Distribution
Liberia
IUCN Red-List
Vulnerable
Synonyms
-
Rank
-
Taxon
-
Literature
FWTA 1: 294
Vouchers
Cooper 216 (BM, K); Dinklage 1612 (K)
Common Name(s)
Melingtueh (Sapo)
Notes
Can grow into a tall tree of drier forests, rare in the rainforest, to 30 m tall and 100 cm Ø, sometimes with a low-branched crown. Outside of the slash red-brown, gritty, inside pale brown, hard and granular, often contoured, exuding a bright yellow exudate. Leaves sismple, opposite, main laterals not closely parallel; pattern of fine, ascending resin ducts.