Spondias pinnata

Spondias pinnata
Leaves of S. pinnata
Trunk of specimen tree in Cat Tien National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Spondias
Binomial name
Spondias pinnata
(L. f.) Kurz
Synonyms

Spondias paniculata Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
Spondias mangifera Willd.
Spondias macrophylla Wall.
Spondias bivenomarginalis K.M. Feng & P.Y. Mao
Spondias amara Lam.
Spondias acuminata Roxb.
Poupartia pinnata f. blanco
Evia amara Comm. ex Bl.
Mangifera pinnata L. f. [1]
Tetrastigma megalocarpum W. T. Wang
Wirtgenia decandra Jungh.

Spondias pinnata[2] is a tree species, first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger, with its current name after Kurz; Spondias is in the family Anacardiaceae.[3][4] and this species is sometimes loosely called the "wild mango". No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.[3]

Spondias pinnata is found in lowlands and hill forests up to 1200 m.[5] It is probably native to Malesia the Philippines and Indochina. It has also been widely cultivated and naturalized in Bhutan, China (southern), India, Myanmar, Nepal.

Description

Spondias pinnata is a deciduous tree, 10-15 m tall (sometimes up to 25 m in height); branchlets yellowish brown and glabrous. [5] The leaves are large, with pairs of leaflets (see illustration) on petioles that are 100-150 mm and glabrous; leaf blades 300-400 mm, imparipinnately compound with 5-11 opposite leaflets; leaflet petiolule 3-5 mm; leaflet blade ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, 70-120 × 40-50 mm, papery, glabrous on both sides, with margins that are serrate or entire; the apex is acuminate, lateral veins 12-25 pairs.

The inflorescence is paniculate, terminal, 250-350 mm and glabrous, with basal first order branches 100-150 mm. Flowers are mostly sessile and small, white and glabrous; calyx lobes are triangular, approx. 0.5 mm. Petals are ovate-oblong, approximately 2.5 × 1.5 mm; stamens are approximately 1.5 mm. The fruit is a drupe ellipsoid to elliptic-ovoid, olive green becoming yellowish orange at maturity, 35-50 × 25-35 mm; inner part of endocarp woody and grooved, outer part fibrous; mature fruit usually have 2 or 3 seeds. In China, it flowers from April-June and fruits from August-September. [5]

Vernacular names

Spondias pinnata may be called in:

References

  1. ↑ Suppl. Pl. 156. 1782
  2. ↑ Kurz, 1875 In: Prelim. Rep. For. et Veg. Pegu. Append. A. 44, app. B. 42
  3. 1 2 Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2014). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist.". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  4. ↑ World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Spondias pinnata". Flora of China. p. 339. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  6. ↑ LETI, Mathieu, HUL Sovanmoly, Jean-Gabriel FOUCHÉ, CHENG Sun Kaing, Bruno DAVID, Flore photographique du Cambodge, Paris: Privat, 2013, p. 63.
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