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Albizia gummifera (J.F.Gmel.)C.A.Sm.

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HIGHER TAXON: Ingeae

GENUS: Albizia Durazz.

Albizia gummifera (J.F.Gmel.)C.A.Sm. [Preferred name]
    Albizia ealaensis De Wild. {Synonym}
    Albizia laevicorticata Zimm. {Synonym}
    Albizia sassa (Willd.)Chiov., p.p. {Synonym}
    Inga sassa Willd. {Synonym}
    Sassa gummifera J.F.Gmel. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Red Nongo [43]; Sambalahy [3402]; Volomborona [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [1]; Cameroon (N) [1]; Ethiopia (N) [1]; Kenya (N) [1]; Malawi (N) [6]; Mozambique (N) [1]; Nigeria (N) [1]; Rwanda (N) [38]; Sudan (N) [1]; Tanzania (N) [1]; Uganda (N) [1]; Zaire (N) [1]; Zimbabwe (N) [1]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [1, 3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Afromontane forest [33];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [11];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; forest. [33];
    Zambezian forest [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1, 6, 3402] ; Distribution Map [55] ; Illustration [1, 10]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Nielsen IC & Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  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.

10.

  Aubreville, A., 1950
    La Flore Forestiere Soudano-Guineene

11.

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

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

38.

  Troupin, G., 1982
    Flore des plantes ligneuses du Rwanda.

43.

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

55.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1953
    Kew Bull.7:507-537. The Albizia gummifera complex.

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.

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