Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Bauhinia rufescens Lam..

Bauhinia rufescens Lam.

HIGHER TAXON: Cercideae

GENUS: Bauhinia L.

Bauhinia rufescens Lam. [Preferred name]
Adenolobus rufescens (Lam.)A.Schmitz {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Benin (N) [11]; Cameroon (N) [111]; Chad (N) [64]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Mali (N) [11]; Mauritania (N) [8]; Niger (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [11]; Togo (N) [8]
Asia: India (I) [1914, 1945, 3091, 3366]; Pondicherry [3366]; Tamil Nadu [1945]; West Bengal [3091]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahel regional transition zone - wooded grassland. [33];
    Sudanian woodland [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3, 111, 1983] ; Distribution Map [57, 131] ; Illustration [10, 29]

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, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

USES:
	Chemical products [14, 3664]; Fibre [14, 3030, 3664]; Forage [130]; Medicine [14, 130, 3030, 3664]; Miscellaneous [3664]; Wood [14, 3030, 3664]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

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

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

29.		Andrews, F.W., 1952
		The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

33.		White, F., 1983
		The Vegetation of Africa

57.		Wickens, G.E., 1976
		Kew Bull.Addnl.ser.5. The flora of Jebel Marra (Sudan)...

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

111.		Aubreville, A., 1965
		9.Caesalpinoideae.In:Flora du Cameroun.Aubreville & Leroy

130.		von Maydell, H.-J., 1983
		Schrifenr. GTZ,147. Arbres et arbustes du Sahel...

131.		Lock, J.M., 1984
		Forage & Browse Plants Arid & semi-arid Africa.IBPGR/Kew

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

1945.		Gamble, J.S., 1918
		Flora of the Presidency of Madras,Vol.1.(Parts 2-3) 1918-19

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

3030.		Ambasta, S.P., 1986
		The useful plants of India

3091.		Prain, D., 1903
		Bengal Plants Vol 1

3366.		Sanjappa, M., 2000
		Checklist of the Leguminosae in South Asia. Typescript

3664.		Publ. & Inform. Directorate, 1988
		Wealth of India-Dictionary of Indian Raw Materials...Vol.2.