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Bauhinia thonningii Schum.

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HIGHER TAXON: Cercideae

GENUS: Bauhinia L.

Bauhinia thonningii Schum. [Preferred name]
    Piliostigma thonningii (Schum.)Milne-Redh. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [110]; Benin (N) [11]; Botswana (N) [107]; Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [11]; Gabon (N) [112]; Gambia The (N) [11]; 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) [8]; Namibia (N) [106]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Senegal (N) [106]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; South Africa (N) [106]; Sudan (N) [106]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Togo (N) [11]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [113]; Zambia (N) [28]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]
  Middle East
Yemen (N) [1939]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Zambezia regional transition zone; transition woodland. [33];
    Guineo-Congolian transition woodland [33];
    Somalia-Masai wooded grasslands. [33];
    Sudanian woodland [33];
    Zambezian woodland [33];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transitional zone; wooded grassland [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [106, 107, 113] ; Illustration [11, 106, 107, 113]

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

  
USES:
  Chemical products [9, 14, 42]; Fibre [9, 14]; Forage [14, 107]; Medicine [14, 113]

  
NOTES:
  Piliostigma thonningii (Schum.)Milne-Redh.: Accepted [04/29/93 13:35] [106]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

64.

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

78.

  Peyre de Fabregues, B.& Lebrun, 1976
    IEMVPT Etude Botanique No.3. Catalogue des plantes..du Niger

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

112.

  Aubreville, A., 1967
    15.Caesalpinoideae.In:Flore du Gabon.Aubreville,A.

113.

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

1939.

  Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
    Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.
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