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<big>''[[Cordyla africana]]'' Lour.</big>
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Cordyla africana'' (PROTA)}}
[[File:Map Cordyla africana.gif|thumb|distribution in Africa (wild)]]
[[File:Linedrawing Cordyla africana.gif|thumb|1, tree habit; 2, part of flowering branch; 3, fruit. Redrawn and adapted by Iskak Syamsudin]]
[[File:Cordyla africana tree.jpg|thumb|tree]]
[[File:Cordyla africana 17.jpg|thumb|tree]]
[[File:Cordyla africana Mozambiqueflora DCH Plowes.jpg|thumb|flowering twig (Flora of Mozambique)]]
[[File:Cordyla africana PlZA J.Meyer.jpg|thumb|inflorescences (PlantsZAfrica)]]
[[File:Cordyla africana F.Whinder - P.Gasson xs.jpg|thumb|wood in transverse section]]
[[File:Cordyla africana F.Whinder - P.Gasson tls.jpg|thumb|wood in tangential section]]
[[File:Cordyla africana F.Whinder - R.Miller rls.jpg|thumb|wood in radial section]]
:Protologue: Fl. cochinch. 2: 412 (1790).
== Vernacular names ==
*Cordyla, wild mango, bush mango, sunbird tree (En). *Tondo, rondo (Po). *Mumbwe, mgwata, mroma, mvoo, mtigonzi (Sw).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Deciduous small to medium-sized tree up to 25(–40) m tall; bole branchless for up to 15 m, straight or curved, up to 100(–120) cm in diameter, without buttresses; bark surface fissured, greyish brown, inner bark fibrous, yellowish with reddish bands; crown rounded, with spreading branches; twigs glabrous or minutely hairy. *Leaves arranged spirally, imparipinnately compound with 11–30 leaflets; stipules small, caducous; petiole and rachis together up to 25 cm long; petiolules up to 4 mm long; leaflets usually alternate, oblong to oblong-elliptical or oblong-ovate, (1–)2–5 cm × (0.5–)1–2.5 cm, rounded to slightly notched at apex, minutely hairy beneath, with minute pellucid dots. Inflorescence an axillary raceme up to 11 cm long, short-hairy. *Flowers bisexual or male, regular; pedicel 0.5–1 cm long; hypanthium bell-shaped, c. 0.5 cm long, greenish; calyx initially entire but splitting into (3–)5 reflexed lobes, greenish with yellowish hairs at apex; petals absent; stamens numerous, inserted at rim of hypanthium, 1.5–2 cm long, orange-yellow; ovary superior, ellipsoid, 1-celled, on a long stipe, style short. *Fruit an ellipsoid to nearly globose, indehiscent, berry-like pod 4.5–8 cm × 3–6 cm, yellow when ripe, with stipe of c. 2 cm long, with 1–3(–4) seeds embedded in yellowish, sticky pulp. *Seeds oblong, c. 3 cm long, without seed coat and endosperm.
== Other botanical information ==
*Mineral inclusions: 136: prismatic crystals present; 142: prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells; (154: more than one crystal of about the same size per cell or chamber).
{{right|(P. Mugabi, P. Baas & H. Beeckman)}}
== Growth and development ==
== Author(s) ==
* R.H.M.J. Lemmens , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands * N. Nyunaï
* N. Nyunaï, Institut de Recherches Médicales et d’Etudes des Plantes Médicinales, B.P. 3805, Yaoundé, Cameroon
== Correct citation of this article ==
Lemmens, R.H.M.J. & Nyunaï, N., 2011. '''Cordyla africana''' Lour. [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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