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Taxonomy
Trichoscypha acuminata Engl.
Nomenclature
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Genus: AnacardiaceaeGenus: Trichoschypha
Media
SUMMARY
Unbranched or poorly branched tree up to 20 m tall and 45 cm dbh. Leaves usually crowded at the top of the stem or branches, up to c. 1.5 m long, 7-17(-22?)-jugate. Leaflets oblong-elliptic, sometimes lanceolate, (6-)15-20(-28) × (2-)3-7 (-10) cm, with (9-)12-18 pairs of main lateral nerves, usually glabrous beneath or nearly so. Inflorescence borne on the lower part (≤ 4 m) of the stem, the male inflorescence up to 30 cm long, the female one usually shorter; bracts of the inflorescence 1.5-3.5 × 1-2 cm, deciduous. Flowers pink to wine-red. Fruits subellipsoid, up to 6 × 3.5 cm, puberulous to shortly velutinous, (partly) glabrescent, dark red at maturity, edible.
Source: Breteler FN. 2004. The genus Trichoscypha (Anacardiaceae) in Lower Guinea and Congolia: A synoptic revision. Adansonia 26: 97-127.