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<big>''[[Cynometra ananta]]'' Hutch. & Dalziel</big>
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:Protologue: Fl. W. trop. Afr. 1(2): 331 (1928).
:Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae)
== Synonyms ==
== Vernacular names ==
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
''Cynometra'' comprises about 90 species and occurs in the tropical regions of the world. Approximately 25 species can be found in mainland tropical Africa and about 10 in Madagascar. Tropical Asia and tropical America have about 25 species each.
=== ''Cynometra megalophylla'' ===''[[Cynometra megalophylla]]'' Harms, a small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall with bole up to 100 cm in diameter, is also restricted to West Africa, occurring from Côte d’Ivoire east to Nigeria, mostly along rivers. Its reddish brown, heavy, hard and durable wood is used for poles, posts and frames in house building. Bark decoctions are used in traditional medicine to treat kwashiorkor, and leaf decoctions to treat measles and chickenpox. ''Cynometra megalophylla'' has been suggested to be useful for reafforestation of swampy areas.
=== ''Cynometra vogelii'' ===''[[Cynometra vogelii]]'' Hook.f. is a small tree up to 10(–20) m tall with bole up to 100 cm in diameter, occurring from Senegal east to Nigeria. Its reddish brown, hard wood is locally used for tool handles; it is also used as firewood. The foliage is fed to cattle. The seed is reportedly edible.
== Anatomy ==
Wood-anatomical description (IAWA hardwood codes):
*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; 24: intervessel pits minute (<font size="1">≤</font> 4 μm); 29: vestured pits; 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; 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; 70: fibres very thick-walled. *Axial parenchyma: (76: axial parenchyma diffuse); (77: axial parenchyma diffuse-in-aggregates); 80: axial parenchyma aliform; 82: axial parenchyma winged-aliform; 83: axial parenchyma confluent; 85: axial parenchyma bands more than three cells wide; (86: axial parenchyma in narrow bands or lines up to three cells wide); (89: axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands); 92: four (3–4) cells per parenchyma strand; (93: eight (5–8) cells per parenchyma strand). *Rays: 96: rays exclusively uniseriate; 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. *Storied structure: (118: all rays storied); (120: axial parenchyma and/or vessel elements storied); (122: rays and/or axial elements irregularly storied). *Mineral inclusions: 136: prismatic crystals present; 142: prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells.
(L. Awoyemi, P.E. Gasson & E.A. Wheeler)
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