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Erythrophleum suaveolens (Guill. & Perr.)Brenan

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HIGHER TAXON: Caesalpinieae

GENUS: Erythrophleum G.Don

Erythrophleum suaveolens (Guill. & Perr.)Brenan [Preferred name]
    Erythrophleum guineense G.Don {Synonym}
    Fillaea suaveolens Guill. & Perr. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Ordeal Tree [28]; Red Water Tree [1902]; Red Water Tree Of Sierra Leone [2023]; Sasswood [1902]; Sassy Bark [2023]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [11]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Gambia The (N) [106]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Kenya (N) [106]; Malawi (N) [8]; Mali (N) [11]; Mozambique (N) [106]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [106]; Sierra Leone (N) [11, 106]; Sudan (N) [106]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Togo (N) [11]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [113]; Zambia (N) [106]; Zimbabwe (N) [106]
  Asia
Singapore (I) [3938]; Sri Lanka (I) [8, 2023]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [33];
    Zambezian forest [33];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane Regional transition zone; Transition woodland. [33];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; forest [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 106, 113, 2023] ; Illustration [3, 106, 113]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3938] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Tree [3938] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3938] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1993 Zarucchi JL ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Chemical products [14, 42]; Environmental [3938]; Medicine [14, 52]; Toxins [14, 42, 52, 2023]; Wood [9, 14, 42, 113]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

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

8.

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

9.

  Eggeling, W.J. & Dale, I.R., 1952
    The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate.

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

42.

  Dale, I.R. & Greenway, P.J., 1961
    Kenya Trees and Shrubs

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

113.

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

1902.

  Terrell, E.E., 1977
    Checklist of Names for 3,000 Vas.Pl... Agric.Handbook No.505

2023.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    Flora of Ceylon 7: 34-107. Caesalpinioideae

3938.

  Keng, H., 1990
    Concise Flora of Singapore. Singapore
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