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Pentaclethra macrophylla Benth.

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GENUS: Pentaclethra Benth.

Pentaclethra macrophylla Benth. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Congo Acacia [14]; Oil Bean Tree [14]; Owala Oil [1902]; Owala Oil Tree [2159]; Ugba [3232]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [11]; Benin (N) [11]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Central African Rep. (N) [2159]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [11]; Gabon (N) [11]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Liberia (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Sao Tome & Principe (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Togo (N) [11]; Zaire (N) [11]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 13] ; Illustration [12, 13, 41]

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:
  Food and Drink [14]; Medicine [14]; Wood [14]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

  Keay, R.W.J. et al., 1964
    Nigerian Trees Vol.2

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

41.

  Engler, A., 1912
    Die Vegetation der Erde:IX:Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3.1

1902.

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

2159.

  Wiersema, J.H. et al., 1990
    Legume Nomenclature USDA Germplasm Sys. USDA Tech. Bull.1757

3232.

  Hopkins, H.C.F., 2001
    Pers. comm.
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