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Albizia zygia (DC.)J.F.Macbr.

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HIGHER TAXON: Ingeae

GENUS: Albizia Durazz.

Albizia zygia (DC.)J.F.Macbr. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Okuro [18]; Red Nongo [43]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [1]; Benin (N) [11]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Central African Rep. (N) [7]; Chad (N) [64]; Gabon (N) [1]; Gambia The (N) [11]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Kenya (N) [1]; Liberia (N) [11]; Mali (N) [11]; Niger (N) [86]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Rwanda (N) [7]; Senegal (N) [1]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [1]; Tanzania (N) [1]; Togo (N) [23]; Uganda (N) [1]; Zaire (N) [1]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [33];
    Guinea-Congolia/Zambezia regional transition zone; forest. [33];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [1];
    Guineo-Congolian transition woodland [33];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; forest. [1];
    Sudanian transition woodland. [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1] ; Distribution Map [57] ; Illustration [12]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Nielsen IC & Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  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

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.

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

43.

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

57.

  Wickens, G.E., 1976
    Kew Bull.Addnl.ser.5. The flora of Jebel Marra (Sudan)...

64.

  Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
    IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

86.

  Boudouresque, E., et al., 1978
    Adansonia 18:377-390.Suppl.Catal. des Plantes...du Niger
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