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Afzelia africana Pers.

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GENUS: Afzelia Sm.

Afzelia africana Pers. [Preferred name]
    Pahudia africana (Pers.)Prain {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Afzelia [18]; Papao [18]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Benin (N) [11]; Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Central African Rep. (N) [11]; Chad (N) [64]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Mali (N) [8]; Niger (N) [86]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [106]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [106]; Togo (N) [11]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [106]
  Asia
India (I) [1914]; Karnataka [1914]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [33];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [33];
    Guineo-Congolian transition woodland [33];
    Sudanian woodland [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 106, 1983] ; Illustration [3, 11, 113]

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

  
USES:
  Forage [14]; Medicine [121]; Toxins [52]; Wood [111, 1983]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

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

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

14.

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

18.

  Hall, J.B.& Swaine, M.D., 1981
    Forest Vegetation in Ghana.

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

52.

  Verdcourt, B. & Trump, E.C., 1969
    Common Poisonous Plants of East Africa

64.

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

86.

  Boudouresque, E., et al., 1978
    Adansonia 18:377-390.Suppl.Catal. des Plantes...du Niger

106.

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

111.

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

113.

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

121.

  Watt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M, 1962
    Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa

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
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