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<big>''[[Cuviera macroura]]'' K.Schum.</big>
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:Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33(2): 352 (1903).
''Cuviera djalonensis'' A.Chev. (1920).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
Larger boles are used for dug-out canoes, whereas branches are used as yam stakes.
== Botany Description ==
Shrub or small tree up to 12 m tall; crown spreading; branches with opposite spines between the nodes; twigs often hollow and ant-infested. Leaves opposite, simple and entire; stipules often with ear-shaped lobes, persistent; petiole short; blade oblong-elliptical to narrowly oblong, more or less asymmetrical, up to 20 cm × 6 cm, base obliquely cuneate to rounded, margins wavy, leathery, glabrous, shiny, pinnately veined with 6–10 pairs of lateral veins. Inflorescence an axillary cyme c. 7.5 cm long, branched from the base; bracts thread-like, glabrous. Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, white turning yellow, fragrant; bracteoles subulate, c. 1 cm × 1 mm; calyx glabrous, lobes subulate, c. 1 cm × 1 mm; corolla c. 2 cm long, lobes lanceolate, with thread-like tips at apex; stamens inserted in corolla tube, alternating with corolla lobes; ovary inferior, 5-celled. Fruit a nearly globose drupe c. 4.5 cm long, 5-ridged.
== Other botanical information ==
In Benin ''Cuviera macroura'' flowers in August and fruits ripen in November–February.
''Cuviera'' comprises about 30 species, all in tropical Africa, but the genus is poorly known. It is possibly close to ''Vangueriella'', but the group of ''Vanguerieae'', in which ''Cuviera'' is classified, is in need of revision to elucidate the relationships between taxa.
=== ''Cuviera acutiflora'' ===''[[Cuviera acutiflora]]'' DC. is a shrub or small tree up to 10 m tall distributed from Guinea and Sierra Leone to Gabon and DR Congo. In Sierra Leone the wood is used for making house wattles. In Nigeria the leaf is made into a laxative for children.
== Ecology ==
* Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (Editors), 2006. Flore analytique du Bénin. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands. 1034 pp.
== Other references ==
* Fauna & Flora International, undated. Tree Atlas of Liberia. [Internet] http://www.liberianfaunaflora.org/ FFI/ Page.aspx?p=30&ix=3022. April 2012.
== Author(s) ==
* M. Brink , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands
== Correct citation of this article ==
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