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Cordeauxia edulis Hemsl.

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HIGHER TAXON: Caesalpinieae

GENUS: Cordeauxia Hemsl.

Cordeauxia edulis Hemsl. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Jicib [131]; Ye'eb [131]; Yeheb [131]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ethiopia (N) [24]; Kenya (I) [8]; Somalia (N) [24]; Tanzania (I) [106]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [24];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 164] ; Distribution Map [125] ; Illustration [24, 81, 164]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Insufficiently known ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994/1995 Lewis GP ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Chemical products [164]; Food and Drink Forage [164]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

81.

  Chiovenda, E., 1929
    Flora Somala 1

106.

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

125.

  Roti-Michelozzi, G., 1957
    Webbia 13:133-228.Adum.Fl.Aeth. Caesalpinoideae excl.Cassia

131.

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

164.

  Hemsley, W.B., 1907
    Hookers Ic.Pl.ser.4,9:tt.2838-9.Cordeauxia edulis

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