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*Cayor pear tree, bush mango (En). *Poirier du Cayor (Fr).

*Deciduous small tree up to 15(–20) m tall; bole branchless for up to 10 m, but usually shorter, often straight and cylindrical; bark surface fissured and scaly, pale brown to dark brown, inner bark yellow-orange; crown rounded, dense; twigs short hairy, becoming glabrous. *Leaves arranged spirally, imparipinnately compound with 10–20 leaflets; stipules small, caducous; petiole and rachis together up to 25 cm long; petiolules up to 5 mm long; leaflets alternate to nearly opposite, oblong to oblong-elliptical or oblong-ovate, 4–7 cm × 2–3 cm, rounded to slightly notched at apex, glabrous or minutely hairy beneath, often with minute pellucid dots. *Inflorescence an axillary raceme up to 8 cm long, densely hairy. *Flowers bisexual or male, regular; pedicel up to 1 cm long; hypanthium bell-shaped, c. 0.5 cm long, greenish; calyx initially entire but splitting into (3–)5 reflexed lobes, greenish, short-hairy; petals absent; stamens numerous, inserted at rim of hypanthium, 2–3 cm long, whitish; ovary superior, ellipsoid, 1-celled, on a long stipe, style short. *Fruit an ellipsoid to nearly globose, indehiscent, berry-like pod 4–8 cm × 3–6 cm, green to yellow when ripe, with stipe of c. 2 cm long, with 2–3 seeds embedded in yellowish, sticky pulp. *Seeds oblong, c. 3 cm long, without seed coat and endosperm.

* N. Nyunaï , Institut de Recherches Médicales et d’Etudes des Plantes Médicinales, B.P. 3805, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Nyunaï, N., 2011. '''Cordyla pinnata''' (Lepr. ex A.Rich.) Milne-Redh. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Louppe, D. & Oteng-Amoako, A.A. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>.