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Parkia filicoidea Oliv.

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HIGHER TAXON: Parkieae

GENUS: Parkia R.Br.

Parkia filicoidea Oliv. [Preferred name]
    Parkia bussei Harms {Synonym}
    Parkia hildebrandtii Harms {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  African Locust Bean [1902]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [51]; Cameroon (N) [51]; Central African Rep. (N) [51]; Chad (N) [64]; Congo (N) [51]; Gabon (N) [51]; Ghana (N) [51]; Ivory Coast (N) [51]; Kenya (N) [51]; Malawi (N) [51]; Mozambique (N) [51]; Nigeria (N) [51]; Sudan (N) [51]; Tanzania (N) [51]; Togo (N) [51]; Uganda (N) [51]; Zaire (N) [51]; Zambia (N) [51]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [51];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; forest. [51];
    Somalia-Masai forest [51];
    Zambezian forest [51];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1, 6, 51] ; Distribution Map [51, 2336] ; Illustration [1, 51, 2335, 2337]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2001-03 Hopkins HF ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Hopkins HF ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Fibre [14]; Food and Drink [14, 51]; Forage [14]; Medicine [14]; Wood [9]

  
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.

14.

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

51.

  Hopkins, H.C., 1983
    Bot.J.Linn.Soc.87:135-167. Taxonomy...of Parkia..in Africa..

64.

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

1902.

  Terrell, E.E., 1977
    Checklist of Names for 3,000 Vas.Pl... Agric.Handbook No.505

2335.

  Hopkins, H.C. & White, F., 1984
    Bull.Jard.Bot.Nat.Belg.54:235-266

2336.

  Hopkins, H.C. & White, F., 1984
    Distributiones Plantarom Africanum 27:893-897

2337.

  Hagos, T.H., 1962
    Acta Botanica Neerlandica 11:231-265 Rev. Parkia in Africa

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