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<big>''[[Cordia subcordata]]'' Lam.</big>
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Cordia subcordata'' (PROTA)}}
[[File:Map Cordia subcordata.gif|thumb|distribution in Africa (wild)]]
[[File:Linedrawing Cordia subcordata.gif|thumb|1, habit of young tree; 2, flowering twig; 3, fruit. Source: PROSEA]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata F K Starr tree.jpg|thumb|tree (Plants of Hawaii)]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata Toptropicals leaves.jpg|thumb|leaves (Toptropicals)]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata F K Starr flowers.jpg|thumb|flowers (Plants of Hawaii)]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata Toptropicals flower.jpg|thumb|flowers (Toptropicals)]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata F K Starr fruits.jpg|thumb|fruits (Plants of Hawaii)]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata xs J. Ilic Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in transverse section]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata xs 2 J. Ilic Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in transverse section]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata tls H. Beeckman Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in tangential section]]
[[File:Cordia subcordata rls J. Ilic Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in radial section]]
:Protologue: Tab. encycl. 1: 421 (1792).
== Vernacular names ==
*Sea trumpet, beach cordial, island walnut (En). *Noyer d’Océanie, faux-ébène (Fr).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Evergreen shrub or small tree up to 15(–20) m tall; bole branchless for up to 8 m, often crooked, up to 60(–100) cm in diameter, without buttresses; bark surface smooth in young trees, becoming fissured and scaly in older trees, brown to dark brown, inner bark pale brown, turning greenish brown upon exposure; crown rounded to irregular, with spreading branches; twigs slightly ridged, nearly glabrous, pale grey. *Leaves alternate, crowded near the ends of twigs, simple and entire; stipules absent; petiole 1.5–11 cm long; blade broadly ovate to broadly elliptical or nearly round, 4–34 cm × 3–17 cm, usually rounded at base, rounded to acute or short-acuminate at apex, papery but slightly fleshy, nearly glabrous, pinnately veined with c. 6 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence an axillary or terminal cyme up to 14 cm long, short-hairy when young, up to 20-flowered. *Flowers bisexual, regular, heterostylous; pedicel up to 0.5(–1) cm long; calyx cylindrical to funnel-shaped, 1–2 cm long, with 3–5 lobes 2–5 mm long; corolla orange to red, sometimes white, with funnel-shaped tube 2–3 cm long and 5–7 spreading lobes 1.5–2.5 cm long; stamens inserted just below the middle of corolla tube, 3–8 mm long; ovary superior, conical, c. 3 mm long, glabrous, style 2–3 cm long, twice bifid with 4 stigmas. *Fruit an ovoid to nearly globose drupe 1.5–4 cm × 2–3 cm, glabrous, yellow to red, becoming blackish, completely enclosed by the persistent calyx, with corky pulp and angular and ridged stone containing 1–2 seeds. *Seeds elongate, 10–13 mm long, whitish.
== Other botanical information ==
== Author(s) ==
* E.A. Obeng , Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), University P.O. Box 63, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
== Correct citation of this article ==
Obeng, E.A., 2010. '''Cordia subcordata''' Lam. [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>.
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