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<big>''[[Sclerocarya birrea]]'' (A.Rich.) Hochst.</big>
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:Protologue: Flora 27, Bes. Beil.: 1 (1844).
== Synonyms ==
*''Sclerocarya caffra'' Sond. (1850), *''Poupartia caffra'' (Sond.) H.Perrier (1944), *''Poupartia birrea'' (A.Rich.) Aubrév. (1950).
== Vernacular names ==
*Marula, cider tree (En). *Prunier d'Afrique, sclérocarya à bière, prunier jaune (Fr). *Canhoeiro, morula (Po). *Mng'ongo, mng'ong'o, morula, mungango (Sw).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
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; 26: intervessel pits medium (7–10 μm); 27: intervessel pits large (<font size="1">≥</font> 10 μm); 31: vessel-ray pits with much reduced borders to apparently simple: pits rounded or angular; 32: vessel-ray pits with much reduced borders to apparently simple: pits horizontal (scalariform, gash-like) to vertical (palisade); 42: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100–200 μm; 47: 5–20 vessels per square millimetre. Tracheids and fibres: 61: fibres with simple to minutely bordered pits; 65: septate fibres present; 68: fibres very thin-walled; 69: fibres thin- to thick-walled. Axial parenchyma: 75: axial parenchyma absent or extremely rare; 78: axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal; 92: four (3–4) cells per parenchyma strand. Rays: 97: ray width 1–3 cells; 106: body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells; (107: body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2–4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells); 115: 4–12 rays per mm. Secretory elements and cambial variants: 130: radial canals. Mineral inclusions: 136: prismatic crystals present; 137: prismatic crystals in upright and/or square ray cells; (156: crystals in enlarged cells).
{{right|(P. Détienne, P. Baas, & E.A. Wheeler)}}
== Growth and development ==
== Author(s) ==
* J.B. Hall , School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, United Kingdom
== Correct citation of this article ==
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