GOMBé (Didelotia brevipaniculata)
NOM COMMERCIAL
Gombé
NOM SCIENTIFIQUE (AVEC AUTEUR)
Didelotia brevipaniculata J.Leon.
FAMILLE
LEGUMINOSAE
NOMS COMMUNS (PAYS)
Timba (Sierra Leone); Anchoung (Guinea-Bissau); Broutou (Côte d`Ivoire); Angok (Gabon); Ekop-gombé (Cameroon); Ekop zing (Cameroon); Bondu (Liberia)
SYNONYMES DU NOM SCIENTIFIQUE (AVEC AUTEURS)
Toubaouate brevipaniculata; Toubaouate brevipaniculata (Leonard) Aubrev. & Pellegr.
DESCRIPTION DE L’ARBRE
DESCRIPTION BOTANIQUE
The tree may reach a height of more than 50 m. The bole is clear to 26 m, straight and cylindrical. The trunk is usually about 70 to 100 cm but may reach up to 170 cm. It is swollen at the base.
HABITAT NATUREL
Didelotia brevipaniculata is found in evergreen rain forests.
RÉPARTITION NATURELLE
West Africa.
DESCRIPTION ANATOMIQUE DU BOIS
Wood diffuse porous. Occasionally vessels exclusively solitary (over 90%). Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more (large). Vestured pits. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits Occasionally axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma lozenge-aliform. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. 3 to 4 cells per pare Rays more than 10 per mm (abundant). Rays and/or axial elements irregularly storied. Rays non-storied. Rays exclusively uniseriate. Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/o Non-septate fibers. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.