Marquesia acuminata
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| Marquesia acuminata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Marquesia |
| Species: | M. acuminata |
| Binomial name | |
| Marquesia acuminata | |
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Marquesia acuminata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to northern Angola, the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western Zambia.[2]
It is a large buttressed tree which grows 15 to 28 metres tall. It is native to wet miombo (Brachystegia) woodland, mixed gallery forest, and dry evergreen Cryptosepalum forest on loamy Kalahari sands, from 500 to 1,500 metres elevation.[1]
The species was first described as Monotes acuminatus by Ernest Friedrich Gilg in 1896. In 1914 Robert Elias Fries placed the species in genus Marquesia as M. acuminata.[2]