Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Bauhinia reticulata DC..

Bauhinia reticulata DC.

HIGHER TAXON: Cercideae

GENUS: Bauhinia L.

Bauhinia reticulata DC. [Preferred name]
Piliostigma reticulatum (DC.)Hochst. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Central African Rep. (N) [11]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [111]; Ghana (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Mali (N) [11]; Niger (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [11]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahel regional transition zone - wooded grassland. [33];
    Sudanian woodland [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3, 111] ; Distribution Map [57] ; Illustration [10]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

NOTES:
  Piliostigma reticulatum (DC.)Hochst.: Accepted [04/29/93 13:34] [11]


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

33.		White, F., 1983
		The Vegetation of Africa

57.		Wickens, G.E., 1976
		Kew Bull.Addnl.ser.5. The flora of Jebel Marra (Sudan)...

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

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