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Albizia altissima Hook.f.

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HIGHER TAXON: Ingeae

GENUS: Albizia Durazz.

Albizia altissima Hook.f. [Preferred name]
    Arthrosamanea altissima (Hook.f.)G.C.C.Gilbert & Boutique {Synonym}
    Cathormion altissimum (Hook.f.)Hutch. & Dandy {Synonym}
    Pithecolobium stuhlmannii Taub. {Synonym}

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

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1] ; Illustration [1, 6, 12]

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

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

  
NOTES:
  Cathormion altissimum (Hook.f.)Hutch. & Dandy: Provisional [05/18/94 14:49] [1]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.

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

6.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1970
    Mimosoideae.In:Flora Zambeziaca Vol.3(1).Brenan,JPM et al.

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
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