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Piptadeniastrum africanum (Hook.f.)Brenan

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HIGHER TAXON: Mimoseae

GENUS: Piptadeniastrum Brenan & Brummitt

Piptadeniastrum africanum (Hook.f.)Brenan [Preferred name]
    Piptadenia africana Hook.f. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Agboin [43]; Dahoma [18]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [7]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Central African Rep. (N) [7]; Gabon (N) [7]; Ghana (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Liberia (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [7]; Sudan (N) [29]; Togo (N) [23]; Uganda (N) [7]; Zaire (N) [7]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [11];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1] ; Illustration [1, 12, 13]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994/1995 Lewis GP ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Medicine [14]; Toxins [7]; Wood [9, 14]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1959
    Mimosoideae.In:Fl.Trop.East Africa.Hubbard & Milne-Redhead

7.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1952
    Flore du Congo Belge,Vol.3. Mimosoideae, Caesalpinoideae.

9.

  Eggeling, W.J. & Dale, I.R., 1952
    The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate.

11.

  Keay, R.W.J., 1958
    Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

12.

  Aubreville, A., 1936
    La Flore Forestiere de la Cote d'Ivoire. Vol.1

13.

  Voorhoeve, A.G., 1965
    Liberian High Forest Trees

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

18.

  Hall, J.B.& Swaine, M.D., 1981
    Forest Vegetation in Ghana.

23.

  Ern, H., 1984
    Leguminosae. In:Flore analytique du Togo.Brunel,J.F. et al.

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

43.

  Hamilton, A., 1981
    A field guide to Uganda Trees

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