Leplaea cedrata
Leplaea cedrata
Safety & Hazards
The wood dust may cause irritation to the skin[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The bark is used locally as a fish poison[ 886 Title A taxonomic revision of the reinstated genus Leplaea and the newly recognized genus Neoguarea Publication Plant Ecology and Evolution 145 (2): 209-241, 2012 Author Koenen E.J.M.; de Wilde J.J.F.E. Website http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2012.656 Publisher The Royal Botanical Society; Belgium. Year 2012 ISBN 2032-3913 Description A review of the genus Guarea in Africa, it excludes all the African species from that genus, placing the majority of them in Leplaea and one in Neoguarea. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].
Botanical Description
Scented guarea is a large, densely-crowned, evergreen tree growing up to 55 metres tall[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The bole is branchless for up to 26 metres, it is usually straight and cylindrical, sometimes fluted, up to 150 cm in diameter, sometimes with spreading, blunt buttresses up to 3 metres high[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. Flushes of new leaves are strikingly pinkish red[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of timber. The wood is of very good quality and trees are commonly harvested from the wild and the wood traded internationally[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. Scented guarea is quite a widespread species, but it occurs usually in low densities and is usually restricted to undisturbed forest[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. It is included in the IUCN Red list, where it is classified as 'Vulnerable' because of habitat loss and degradation, and selective felling[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].