Aporrhiza urophylla
Sapindaceae
Habit
Tree
Fern
No
Predominant Habitat
Forest
Geographic Distribution
Liberia
IUCN Red-List
Not assessed
Synonyms
-
Rank
-
Taxon
-
Literature
FWTA 1: 721
Vouchers
Jansen 2226 (BR, K, WAG); Stoop – v.d. Kasteele 254 (WAG)
Common Name(s)
Not Known
Notes
Understory tree of rain forest and semi-deciduous forest, to 20 m high and 40 cm Ø; stem twisted, the base often with low adventitious roots or stiltroots; slash deep orange-pinkish to reddish brown; leaves 3 – 5 jugate, 20 – 100 cm long, the leaflets opposite or alternate with slender petiolules and ± 8 pairs of laterals; rachis and petiolules reddish velvety (?); tip of apex a sharp point; leaflet base decurrent. Twigs brown-grey tomentellous. Fruits finely grey hairy outside. See also PROTA database.