Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Dialium pachyphyllum Harms.

Dialium pachyphyllum Harms

HIGHER TAXON: Cassieae

GENUS: Dialium L.

Dialium pachyphyllum Harms [Preferred name]
Dialium yambataense Vermoesen {Synonym}

VERNACULAR NAME:
	Omvong [111]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [11]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [8]; Gabon (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Zaire (N) [11]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [11];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3, 111] ; Illustration [111]

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

USES:
	Toxins [113]; Wood [113]

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

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