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:Family: Rutaceae

*''Fagara macrophylla'' (Oliv.) Engl. (1896), *''Fagara tessmannii'' Engl. (1911), *''Fagara amaniensis'' Engl. (1917), *''Zanthoxylum tessmannii'' (Engl.) J.F.Ayafor (1984).

*African satinwood, white African mahogany (En). *Olon dur, citronnier d’Afrique, faux citronnier (Fr).

*Deciduous small to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall; bole branchless for up to 15(–25) m, usually straight and cylindrical, up to 90(–150) cm in diameter, with many woody, prickle-bearing protuberances up to 3 cm long but old trees often lacking these, often with indistinct buttresses at base; outer bark grey to greyish brown, smooth to slightly rough, inner bark granular, yellowish brown, often mottled with orange; crown spreading; branches glabrous, armed with conical prickles up to 8 mm long. *Leaves alternate, clustered at ends of branches, imparipinnately compound with 13–27(–51) leaflets, up to 120(–150) cm long; stipules absent; rachis glabrous, sometimes with prickles; petiolules up to 1 cm long; leaflets alternate to nearly opposite, elliptical-oblong, (8–)14–30 cm × 3.5–10 cm, cuneate to rounded and asymmetrical at base, shortly acuminate to obtuse at apex, margin entire or sometimes slightly toothed, leathery, glabrous, with many minute glandular dots, pinnately veined with 8–18 pairs of lateral veins. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary pyramidal panicle 20–35 cm long, many-flowered with flowers in clusters. *Flowers unisexual, regular, 5-merous, small, nearly sessile; sepals united halfway, ovate to circular, 0.5–1 mm long; petals obovate to fiddle-shaped, 1–2.5 mm long, white, turning brown; male flowers with 5 stamens varying in length, disk dome-shaped and lobed, ovary rudimentary; female flowers with superior, ovoid ovary 1–1.5 mm long, shortly stiped, stamens rudimentary. *Fruit a globose follicle 3.5–6 mm in diameter, reddish, glandular pitted, dehiscent, 1(–2)-seeded. *Seed globose, 2.5–3.5 mm in diameter, black and shiny. Seedling with epigeal germination; hypocotyl 3–4 cm long; cotyledons oblong, 1–1.5 cm long, leafy; first leaves simple.

=== ''Zanthoxylum becquetii'' ===The wood of ''[[Zanthoxylum becquetii]]'' (G.C.C.Gilbert) P.G.Waterman (synonym: ''Fagara becquetii'' G.C.C.Gilbert) has been used in Rwanda for construction; it is reported as hard and durable.  === ''Zanthoxylum renieri'' ===The wood of ''[[Zanthoxylum renieri]]'' (G.C.C.Gilbert) P.G.Waterman (synonym: ''Fagara renieri'' G.C.C.Gilbert), occurring in eastern DR Congo and Rwanda, has been used for making canoes.

*Growth rings: 2: growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent. *Vessels: 5: wood diffuse-porous; 13: simple perforation plates; 22: intervessel pits alternate; (24: intervessel pits minute (<font size="1">≤</font> 4 μm)); 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; 42: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100–200 μm; (43: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina <font size="1">≥</font> 200 μm); 46: <font size="1">≤</font> 5 vessels per square millimetre; (47: 5–20 vessels per square millimetre); 58: gums and other deposits in heartwood vessels. *Tracheids and fibres: 61: fibres with simple to minutely bordered pits; 66: non-septate fibres present; 69: fibres thin- to thick-walled. *Axial parenchyma: 79: axial parenchyma vasicentric; 80: axial parenchyma aliform; 81: axial parenchyma lozenge-aliform; (83: axial parenchyma confluent); 92: four (3–4) cells per parenchyma strand; 93: eight (5–8) cells per parenchyma strand. *Rays: 97: ray width 1–3 cells; 104: all ray cells procumbent; (106: body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells); 115: 4–12 rays per mm. *Secretory elements and cambial variants: 131: intercellular canals of traumatic origin. *Mineral inclusions: 136: prismatic crystals present; 142: prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells.

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* M.M. Okeyo , Londiani Regional Research Centre, P.O. Box 382 – 20203, Londiani, Kenya

Okeyo, M.M., 2008. '''Zanthoxylum gilletii''' (De Wild.) P.G.Waterman. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>.  Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.

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