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<big>''[[Blighia sapida]]'' K.D.Koenig</big>
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:Protologue: Ann. Bot. 2: 571, t. 16–17 (1806).
:Chromosome number: 2''n'' = 32
== Vernacular names ==
Wood-anatomical description (IAWA hardwood codes):
*Growth rings: 2: growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent. *Vessels: 5: wood diffuse-porous; 13: simple perforation plates; 22: intervessel pits alternate; 23: shape of alternate pits polygonal; 25: intervessel pits small (4–7 μm); 30: vessel-ray pits with distinct borders; similar to intervessel pits in size and shape throughout the ray cell; (36: helical thickenings in vessel elements present); (37: helical thickenings throughout body of vessel element); (38: helical thickenings only in vessel element tails); 42: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100–200 μm; 46: <font size="1" millimetre="" vessels="" square="" gums="" other="" deposits="" in="" heartwood="" vessels.="" tracheids="" and="" fibres:="" with="" simple="" minutely="" bordered="" pits="" septate="" present="" non-septate="" thin-="" to="" thick-walled="" fibres="" very="" axial="" parenchyma:="" absent="" or="" extremely="" rare="" scanty="" paratracheal="" four="" per="" parenchyma="" strand.="" rays:="" width="" cells="" all="" ray="" procumbent="">≥</font> 12 rays per mm. *Mineral inclusions: 136: prismatic crystals present; 138: prismatic crystals in procumbent ray cells.
(S. N’Danikou, P.E. Gasson & E.A. Wheeler)
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