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<big>''[[Lasiodiscus mildbraedii]]'' Engl.</big>
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:Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 552 (1908).
:Family: Rhamnaceae
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
The wood is whitish brown to pinkish brown, heavy, hard, tough and elastic.
== Botany Description ==
Shrub or small tree up to 10(–25) m tall; bole up to 30 cm in diameter; bark surface flaking with small scales, dark grey, inner bark yellowish brown to pinkish or brownish red; twigs short-hairy or glabrous, older ones with scars of stipules. Leaves opposite, simple; stipules interpetiolar, triangular, 0.5–1.5 cm long, fused at base, caducous; petiole 3–7 mm long; blade elliptical to oblanceolate, (8.5–)11–15.5(–23) cm × (3.5–)4.5–5.5(–12) cm, cuneate and asymmetrical at base, acute to slightly acuminate at apex, margins irregularly toothed, usually slightly hairy below, pinnately veined with 7–10 pairs of lateral veins. Inflorescence an axillary, compound dichasium, often umbel-like, branches up to 2(–3) cm long, hairy. Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, whitish; pedicel up to 2 cm long; hypanthium campanulate; sepals triangular, 2–2.5 mm long; petals oblanceolate, c. 2 cm long, much narrower than sepals; stamens opposite the petals, 1.5–2 mm long; disk ring-like, fleshy, 2–2.5 mm in diameter, yellowish; ovary half-inferior to inferior, 3-celled, style 1–2 mm long, 3-branched. Fruit up to 1 cm in diameter, hairy, splitting into 3 parts, each part longitudinally dehiscent and 1-seeded. Seeds globose, flattened on one side, 5–7 mm in diameter, smooth, brown.
== Other botanical information ==
The leaves serve as food for chimpanzees.
''Lasiodiscus'' comprises 12 species and occurs in tropical Africa, with one species also found in Madagascar. ''Lasiodiscus'' seems to be related to ''Colubrina'', but the latter differs in its alternate leaves, lateral stipules and glabrous fruits.
=== ''Lasiodiscus fasciculiflorus'' ===''[[Lasiodiscus fasciculiflorus]]'' Engl. is a shrub or small tree up to 10 m tall, occurring from Sierra Leone east to the Central African Republic and south to DR Congo and northern Angola. Its wood is probably used for similar purposes as that of ''Lasiodiscus mildbraedii'', and in Congo bark decoctions are applied in traditional medicine to treat vertigo and rheumatism. ''Lasiodiscus mannii'' Hook.f. is a shrub or small tree up to 10 m tall, occurring from Guinea east to the Central African Republic and south to Gabon and DR Congo. Its wood is probably used for similar purposes as that of ''Lasiodiscus mildbraedii'', and in Ghana its twigs serve as chew-sticks. == Description == == Other botanical information ==
=== ''Lasiodiscus mannii'' ===
''[[Lasiodiscus mannii]]'' Hook.f. is a shrub or small tree up to 10 m tall, occurring from Guinea east to the Central African Republic and south to Gabon and DR Congo. Its wood is probably used for similar purposes as that of ''Lasiodiscus mildbraedii'', and in Ghana its twigs serve as chew-sticks.
== Ecology ==
== Author(s) ==
* L.P.A. Oyen , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands
== Correct citation of this article ==
Oyen, L.P.A., 2011. '''Lasiodiscus mildbraedii''' Engl. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: 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>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.
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