Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Hymenostegia afzelii (Oliv.)Harms.

Hymenostegia afzelii (Oliv.)Harms

HIGHER TAXON: Detarieae

GENUS: Hymenostegia (Benth.)Harms

Hymenostegia afzelii (Oliv.)Harms [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Cameroon (N) [11]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Liberia (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Togo (N) [11]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [18];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3, 111] ; Illustration [12, 111]

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

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

111.		Aubreville, A., 1965
		9.Caesalpinoideae.In:Flora du Cameroun.Aubreville & Leroy