Combretum glutinosum
Leaves of ' Combretum glutinosum '
Combretum glutinosum is a flowering plant in the family of wing seed plants ( Combretaceae ). The range extends Senegal to Cameroon and to Sudan.
- 5.1 Notes and references
Description
Appearance, bark and leaf
Combretum glutinosum grows as a bushy shrub or small tree stature heights of 8 to 10, or reaches up to 12 meters. The most tortuous strain has also at the bottom of branches, which typically grow downwards and it is rounded, open canopy formed.
The gray-black bark may be smooth or rough and cracked. The greyish bark on young stems is velvety hairy to woolly.
Is a deciduous way that the center of the drying time begins to expel their leaves. The more or less opposite or in whorls threes on the branches arranged leaves are divided into petiole and leaf blade. They are different in shape and size, even on the same specimen. The woolly hairy petiole is 5-15 mm long. The green, simple, thick leathery leaf blade is elliptic or ovate to obovate with a length of 9 to 18 cm and a width of 4 to 8 cm. The leaf margin is smooth. The lower leaf surface is densely hairy and the top is covered with a thick layer of wax. 7 fiedrig arranged lateral veins occur on both leaf surfaces to 15 pairs clearly and unite towards the blade tip; they are hairy fluffy.
Generative features
The pendant spike- like, racemose inflorescences are more or less hairy and woolly about 4 to 5 cm long. The hermaphrodite flowers have a diameter of about 2.5 to 3 mm and are intensely hairy. The four petals and the stamens are greenish- yellow to cream-colored. The 2.5 to 4 cm long wingnut (Samara ) has four wings.
In Burkina Faso and Mali, the main flowering period from December to March ranges from the middle to the end of the dry season, but it may last until July. There is Ripe fruits from January to November or shorter with each March to May at the end of the dry season.
Dissemination
From Senegal to Cameroon Combretum glutinosum occurs in the Sahel, Sudan and Guinea zone.
System
The valid first description of Combretum glutinosum took place in 1828 by George Samuel Perrottet in Augustin- de Candolle Pyrame: Prodromus systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 3, p 21 It is often the subsequent publication of Combretum glutinosum Perr. cited in Florae Senegambiae Tentamen, 1, 1833, p 288, table 68. Other synonyms are: Combretum cordofanum Engl & Diels, C. passargei Engl & Diels, C. leonense Engl & Diels.
Use
In West Africa Combretum glutinosum is used for dyeing cotton fabrics.