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Dichrostachys cinerea ssp. platycarpa (W.Bull)Brenan & Brummitt

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HIGHER TAXON: Mimoseae

GENUS: Dichrostachys (DC.)Wight & Arn.

Dichrostachys cinerea ssp. platycarpa (W.Bull)Brenan & Brummitt [Preferred name]
    Dichrostachys platycarpa W.Bull {Synonym}
    Pithecellobium baroni R.Vig. {Orthographic variant}
    Pithecellobium baronii R.Vig. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [21]; Benin (N) [21]; Cameroon (N) [21]; Ghana (N) [21]; Guinea (N) [21]; Guinea Bissau (N) [21]; Liberia (N) [21]; Senegal (N) [21]; Sierra Leone (N) [21]; Sudan (N) [21]; Togo (N) [21]; Uganda (N) [21]; Zaire (N) [21]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (I) [3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian wooded grassland [21];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [21, 3402] ; Distribution Map [21]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub [3402], Tree [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994/1995 Lewis GP ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Environmental [3402]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

21.

  Brenan, J.P.M. & Brummitt, R.K., 1965
    Bol.Soc.Brot.,2,39:61-115. Dichrostachys cinerea

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.

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