Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Baikiaea insignis Benth..

Baikiaea insignis Benth.

HIGHER TAXON: Detarieae

GENUS: Baikiaea Benth.

Baikiaea insignis Benth. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [106]; Cameroon (N) [106]; Congo (N) [11]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [106]; Gabon (N) [106]; Nigeria (N) [106]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [106]
Asia: India (I) [1914]; Karnataka [1914]; Sri Lanka (I) [8, 2023]
Caribbean: Caribbean-TRP (U) [1790]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [106];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; forest. [106];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [106, 113, 1983, 2023] ; Illustration [106, 113, 3670]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1990 (Americas Update) Zarucchi JL, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

USES:
	Environmental [8]; Miscellaneous [1983]

NOTES:
  Brummitt (in press,1985) does not recognize the subspecies or varieties. []


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.		Lock, J.M., 1985
		Specimen in Herb.Kew

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

106.		Brenan, J.P.M., 1967
		Caesalp.In:Flora Trop.East Africa. Milne-Redhead & Polhill

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

1790.		Howard, R.A. et al., 1988
		Dicotyledoneae Part 1.Fl. Lesser Antilles Arnold Arboretum

1914.		Sanjappa, M., 1992
		Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

1983.		Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z., 1976
		Hortus Third. New York: Macmillan

2023.		Rudd, V.E., 1991
		Flora of Ceylon 7: 34-107. Caesalpinioideae

3670.		Oommachan, M. & Shrivastava, JL, 1996
		Flora of Jabalpur. Jodhpur.