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Albizia versicolor Oliv.

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HIGHER TAXON: Ingeae

GENUS: Albizia Durazz.

Albizia versicolor Oliv. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [1]; Botswana (N) [6]; Kenya (N) [1]; Malawi (N) [6]; Mozambique (N) [6]; Namibia (N) [40]; Rwanda (N) [7]; South Africa (N) [1, 1915]; Tanzania (N) [1]; Uganda (N) [1]; Zaire (N) [6]; Zambia (N) [6]; Zimbabwe (N) [6]
  Indian Ocean
Mauritius (I) [1915]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Zambezia regional transition zone; transition woodland. [33];
    Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [33];
    Zambezian woodland [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1] ; Illustration [7, 28, 58, 410]

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 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Medicine [19]; Wood [19]

  
NOTES:
  Cultivated in the botanic garden on Mauritius. [1915]
  Native to Tropical, East and South Africa. [1915]

  
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.

7.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1952
    Flore du Congo Belge,Vol.3. Mimosoideae, Caesalpinoideae.

19.

  Ross, J.H., 1975
    Mimosoideae.In:Flora Southern Africa Vol.16,pt.1.Ross,J.H.

28.

  White, F., 1962
    Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia.

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

40.

  Schreiber, A., 1967
    58.Mimosaceae.In:Prodr.Flora von Sudwestafrika.Merxmuller,H.

58.

  Gomes e Sousa, A., 1966
    Dendrologia de Mocambique. Mem.1,Inst.Invest.Agron.Mocamb.

410.

  Onderstall, J., 1984
    Transvaal Lowveld & Escarpment... South Afr.Wild Fl.Guide 4.

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a
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