Synsepalum brevipes
Sapotaceae
Habit
Tree
Fern
No
Predominant Habitat
Forest
Geographic Distribution
Liberia
IUCN Red-List
Not assessed
Synonyms
Pachystela brevipes, P. pobeguineana, Synsepalum pbeguineana
Rank
-
Taxon
-
Literature
Pennington, 1991: 248
Vouchers
Bos 2597 (BR, K, WAG); van Meer 149 (BR, MO, WAG)
Common Name(s)
bokulolo (Liberian english/ local name/ trade name)
Notes
Variable species, (shrub) small – medium-sized tree to 20 m high, bole fluted and to 30 cm Ø, with a wide-spreading crown of drooping branches. Rainforest, often in damp sites, swamp forest and beside streams. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered; blade obovate – oblanceolate, acuminate, long-cuneate at base, with short petiole; blade metallic below, with ± 8 pairs of laterals; stipules on young twigs persistent. See also PROTA database. Syn.: Pachystela brevipes/Pachystela pobeguineana/Synsepalum pobeguinianum.