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Erythrophleum africanum (Benth.)Harms

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HIGHER TAXON: Caesalpinieae

GENUS: Erythrophleum G.Don

Erythrophleum africanum (Benth.)Harms [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [110]; Benin (N) [11]; Botswana (N) [107]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Gabon (N) [8]; Gambia The (N) [11]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Mali (N) [11]; Mozambique (N) [107]; Namibia (N) [106]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [106]; Sudan (N) [106]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Togo (N) [11]; Zaire (N) [113]; Zambia (N) [106]; Zimbabwe (N) [106]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 106] ; Illustration [10, 28]

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:
  Medicine [52]; Toxins [14, 52]; Wood [28]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

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

8.

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

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

28.

  White, F., 1962
    Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia.

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

52.

  Verdcourt, B. & Trump, E.C., 1969
    Common Poisonous Plants of East Africa

64.

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

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.

110.

  Torre, A.R.da & Hillcoat, D., 1958
    Caesalpinoideae.In:Consp.Fl.Angolensis 2.Exell & Mendonca

113.

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