''Anthonotha fragrans'' is a medium to large sized tree commonly found in the rainforest environments of
West
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Etymology
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and
Central Africa; it belongs to the Fabaceae family. Its sapwood exudes a white to creamy exudate.
Description
The species can reach 45 meters tall and up to 1.3 meters in diameter.
Leaves are paripinnately compound, with 2-5 pairs of leaflets per pinnae,
stipule
In botany, a stipule is an outgrowth typically borne on both sides (sometimes on just one side) of the base of a leafstalk (the petiole (botany), petiole). They are primarily found among dicots and rare among monocots. Stipules are considered part ...
s detaches at an early stage,
petiole
Petiole may refer to:
*Petiole (botany), the stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem
*Petiole (insect anatomy)
In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, and ...
ranges between 0.5 and 1.5 cm long but can reach 4 cm in length;
leaf-blade is elliptic to oblong in outline, its cross-section is terete shaped, the thick petiolule is 3–7 mm long, adaxial surface is glabrous while the lower surface is covered with appressed, dense, brown hairs.
The hairy inflorescence is raceme type, axillary or terminal in the leaf axis, flowers are fragrant, bracts are ovate in outline and 1–2 mm long,
pedicel
Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:
Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
...
is 2–5 mm long.
Distribution
The species occurs in West and Central Africa from Guinea eastwards to the
Congo basin
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. It is found on sandy or sandy loam soil in deciduous or semi-deciduous forests of the region.
Ecology
''Anthonotha fragrans'' is a host species to
Clavulinaceae
The Clavulinaceae are a family (biology), family of fungi in the order (biology), order Cantharellales. The family is not well defined, but currently comprises species of clavarioid fungi, clavarioid (club and coral) fungi as well as some cortici ...
,
Thelephoraceae
The Thelephoraceae are a family of fungi in the order Thelephorales. This grouping of mushrooms is commonly known as the "leathery earthfans".
Genera
The family includes the following eight genera:
* '' Amaurodon''
* '' Hypochnus''
* '' Lenzit ...
and
Boletaceae
The Boletaceae are a Family (biology), family of mushroom-forming fungi, primarily characterised by small pores on the spore-bearing hymenium, hymenial surface (at the underside of the mushroom), instead of Lamella (mycology), gills as are found ...
families of fungi in an
ectomycorrhiza
An ectomycorrhiza (from Greek ἐκτός ', "outside", μύκης ', "fungus", and ῥίζα ', "root"; ectomycorrhizas or ectomycorrhizae, abbreviated EcM) is a form of symbiotic relationship that occurs between a fungal symbiont, or mycobio ...
l relationship.
References
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
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