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Brownea coccinea Jacq.

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GENUS: Brownea Jacq.

Brownea coccinea Jacq. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Scarlet Flame Bean [1983]; West Indian Mountain Rose [3383, 3618]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Zaire (I) [8]
  Asia
Bangladesh (I) [3383]; India (I) [3618]; West Bengal [3618]; Malaysia (I) [3011]; Peninsular Malaysia (N) [3011]; Sri Lanka (I) [2023]
  Indian Ocean
Mauritius (I) [3052]; Seychelles (I) [1941]
  South America
Colombia (N) [2317]; Ecuador (N) [2317]; Venezuela (U) [1342, 1514, 1697, 2317]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [8];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1983, 2317, 3011, 3383, 3618] ; Illustration [3383, 3618]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [2317] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub [2317], Tree [2317] ; Lifespan: Perennial [2317] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Environmental [8]; Miscellaneous [3383, 3664]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

1342.

  Howard, R.A., 1973
    J.Arnold Arbor.54(4):435-470 Enumer.& Select. N.Von Jacquin

1941.

  Robertson, S.A., 1989
    Flowering Plants of Seychelles. Kew

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

2317.

  Klitgaard, B.B., 1991
    Nordic J.Bot.11(4):433-449 Ecuadorian Brownea & Browneopsis

3011.

  Corner, E.J.H, 1952
    Wayside trees of Malaya (2nd ed.) Singapore.

3052.

  Bojer, W., 1837
    Hortus Mauritianus ou Enumeration des Plants...l'ile Maurice

3383.

  Khatun, R.B., 1987
    Tree Legumes of Bangladesh

3618.

  Benthall, A.P., 1946
    The trees of Calcutta. Calcutta.

3664.

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

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