[Home | Genus | Latin names]

Dialium guineense Willd.

Email comments
HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Dialium L.

Dialium guineense Willd. [Preferred name]
    Dialium guianense Steud. {Orthographic variant}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  West African Velvet Tamarind [2023]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Benin (N) [11]; Gambia The (N) [11]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Liberia (N) [11]; Mali (N) [561]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Sao Tome & Principe (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Togo (N) [11]
  Asia
India (I) [1914]; Karnataka [1914]; Sri Lanka (I) [2023]
  Caribbean
Caribbean-TRP (U) [1790]; St Vincent (I) [8]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [11];
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [33];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [33];
    Sudanian transition woodland. [33];

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

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Environmental [2023]; Food and Drink [14, 1985]; Medicine [14, 1985]; Miscellaneous [1985]; Wood [14, 1985]

  
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

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

561.

  Boudet, G. & Lebrun, J.-P., 1986
    Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.

1790.

  Howard, R.A. et al., 1988
    Dicotyledoneae Part 1.Fl. Lesser Antilles Arnold Arboretum

1914.

  Sanjappa, M., 1992
    Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

1985.

  Lock, J.M., 1989
    Legumes of Africa:a check-list. RBG Kew.

2023.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    Flora of Ceylon 7: 34-107. Caesalpinioideae
[Home | Genus | Latin names]
Version 10.38 20 July 2010
© ILDIS 2006-2013
Page last revised:  24/01/2013,  11:27:51    Aweb for Alice overview