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Burkea africana Hook.

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HIGHER TAXON: Caesalpinieae

GENUS: Burkea Benth.

Burkea africana Hook. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [106]; Benin (N) [11]; Botswana (N) [107]; Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [111]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Malawi (N) [8]; Mali (N) [11]; Mozambique (N) [8]; Namibia (N) [106]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [11]; South Africa (N) [106]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Togo (N) [11]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [113]; Zambia (N) [106]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Zambezia regional transition zone; wooded grassland. [33];
    Kalahari-Highveld regional transition zone; scrub forest. [33];
    Sudanian woodland [33];
    Zambezian scrub woodland [33];
    Zambezian woodland [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 106, 113] ; Illustration [10, 106, 138]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1993 Zarucchi JL ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Chemical products [14]; Medicine [14, 121]; Toxins [14]; Wood [9, 107]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

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

8.

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

9.

  Eggeling, W.J. & Dale, I.R., 1952
    The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate.

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

64.

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

78.

  Peyre de Fabregues, B.& Lebrun, 1976
    IEMVPT Etude Botanique No.3. Catalogue des plantes..du Niger

106.

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

107.

  Ross, J.H., 1982
    Caesalpinoideae.In:Flora Southern Africa 16,pt.1.Ross.J.H.

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

138.

  Killick, D.J.B., 1967
    Fl.Pl.Africa 38:pl.1505. Burkea africana.
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