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Diospyros crassiflora. Diospyros crassiflora, commonly known as Gaboon ebony, African ebony, Cameroon ebony, Nigeria ebony, [3] West African ebony, [4] and Benin ebony[5] is a species of lowland-rainforest tree in the family Ebenaceae that is endemic to Western Africa. It is named after the Central African nation of Gabon, though it also occurs ...
Category. : Flora of Gabon. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flora of Gabon. This category contains the native flora of Gabon as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic.
Aucoumea klaineana (angouma, gaboon, or okoumé) is a tree in the family Burseraceae, native to equatorial west Africa in Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, and Río Muni.It is a large hardwood tree growing to 30–40 m (100–130 feet) tall, rarely larger, with a trunk 1.0–2.5 m (3.5–8 feet) diameter above the often large basal buttresses.
Description. It is a shrub or small tree reaching 6 meters in height. Its oblong to lance-shaped leaves are 5.2-20.9 by 2.3-7.1 centimeters. The tips of the leaves taper to a point, and their bases are wedge-shaped to rounded. The upper surface of the leaves are green and hairless to slightly hairy, their lower surface is green to greyish, waxy ...
Pleomele poggei (Engl.) N.E.Br. Dracaena sanderiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Central Africa. [ 3 ] It was named after the German–English gardener Henry Frederick Conrad Sander (1847–1920). The plant is commonly marketed as " lucky bamboo "; this term has become one of its common names.
Scadoxus cinnabarinus is a herbaceous plant from tropical rainforest in Africa. It is native to Western and Central Africa from Sierra Leone in the far west to Angola in the south. [3] It has been reported from Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Niger, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, São Tomé ...
Pauridiantha venusta was assessed as "vulnerable" in the 2004 IUCN Red List, where it is said to be native only to Cameroon and Gabon, being found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. As of February 2023 [update] , P. venusta was regarded as a synonym of Pauridiantha talbotii , which has a wider distribution, being found also in ...
The yellowish-grey or yellowish-brown bark is scaly and falls away in small patches. The leaves are oblanceolate in shape, measuring 20–35 cm (7.9–13.8 in) long and 4–8 cm (1.6–3.1 in) wide. The tip of the leaf is short and pointed, and the edges are slight wavy. The leaves are arranged spirally, clustering near the tips of the branches.