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[[File:Map Brachylaena huillensis.gif|thumb|distribution in Africa (wild)]][[File:Linedrawing Brachylaena huillensis.gif|thumb|1, tree habit; 2, flowering branch; 3, male flowering head; 4, female flowering head; 5, fruit without pappus. Redrawn and adapted by Achmad Satiri Nurhaman]][[File:Brachylaena huillensis J. Ilic xs Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in transverse section]][[File:Brachylaena huillensis J. Ilic tls Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in tangential section]][[File:Brachylaena huillensis J. Ilic rls Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in radial section]]
<big>''[[Brachylaena huillensis]]'' O.Hoffm.</big>
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== Synonyms ==
*''Brachylaena hutchinsii'' Hutch. (1910).
== Vernacular names ==
*Lowveld silver oak, silver oak (En). *Muhuhu, mkarambati, mvumo (Sw).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Evergreen or deciduous, dioecious shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 30(–40) m tall; bole usually slender, often low-branching, up to 60(–80) cm in diameter, often curved, fluted, eventually developing thin buttresses; bark surface rough, longitudinally fissured, flaking in long narrow strips, grey, inner bark fibrous, pale brown, rapidly becoming dirty grey upon exposure; crown narrow, with steeply ascending branches; young twigs densely whitish short-hairy. *Leaves arranged spirally, crowded at the ends of twigs, simple; stipules absent; petiole 0.5–1(–1.5) cm long; blade oblanceolate to obovate or elliptical, 3–12(–15) cm × 1–3(–5.5) cm, usually cuneate at base, short-acuminate at apex, margins usually entire, sometimes remotely toothed, leathery, glabrous and shiny green above, densely short-hairy and silvery whitish or greyish below, pinnately veined with up to 16 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence a small, cylindrical head 2–6 mm long, 3–9-flowered, clustered on short side-branches or in axillary panicles; involucral bracts in several series, densely whitish short-hairy. *Florets unisexual, 5-merous; corolla white, with cylindrical tube and slightly unequal, recurved lobes; male florets with exserted stamens having fused anthers, and rudimentary ovary; female flowers with inferior ovary and long slender style 2-branched at apex. *Fruit a cylindrical achene 3–4 mm long, 5–8-ribbed, densely hairy and glandular, crowned by pappus of numerous pale brown bristles 4–6.5 mm long, 1-seeded.
== Other botanical information ==
*Storied structure: 118: all rays storied; 120: axial parenchyma and/or vessel elements storied.
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== Growth and development ==
== Author(s) ==
* Nyunaï Nyemb , Institut de Recherches Médicales et d’Etudes des Plantes Médicinales, B.P. 3805, Yaoundé, Cameroon
== Correct citation of this article ==
