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Brachystegia spiciformis Benth.

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HIGHER TAXON: Detarieae

GENUS: Brachystegia Benth.

Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [106]; Kenya (N) [106]; Malawi (N) [106]; Mozambique (N) [106]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [106]; Zambia (N) [106]; Zimbabwe (N) [106]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Zambezia regional transition zone; transition woodland. [33];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [33];
    Zambezian scrub woodland [33];
    Zambezian woodland [33];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane Regional transition zone; Transition woodland. [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [28, 106, 113] ; Illustration [28, 42, 106, 113]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Fibre [121]; Medicine [121]; Wood [42, 113]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

28.

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

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

42.

  Dale, I.R. & Greenway, P.J., 1961
    Kenya Trees and Shrubs

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

121.

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