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Detarium senegalense J.F.Gmel.

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HIGHER TAXON: Detarieae

GENUS: Detarium Juss.

Detarium senegalense J.F.Gmel. [Preferred name]
    Detarium heudelotianum Baill. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Central African Rep. (N) [11]; Gambia The (N) [11]; Ghana (N) [18]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Liberia (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [11]; Togo (N) [11]; Zaire (N) [11]
  Asia
Indonesia (I) [8]; Singapore (I) [8]
  Caribbean
Trinidad & Tobago (I) [8]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [33];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [11];
    Guineo-Congolian wooded grassland. [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 113] ; Illustration [12]

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

  
USES:
  Forage [14]; Medicine [14]; Wood [14]

  
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

12.

  Aubreville, A., 1936
    La Flore Forestiere de la Cote d'Ivoire. Vol.1

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

113.

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