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Dalbergia melanoxylon Guill. & Perr.

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HIGHER TAXON: Dalbergieae

GENUS: Dalbergia L.f.

Dalbergia melanoxylon Guill. & Perr. [Preferred name]
    Amerimnon melanoxylon (Guill. & Perr.)Kuntze {Synonym}
    Amerimnon stocksii (Benth.)Kuntze {Synonym}
    Dalbergia stocksii Benth. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  African Blackwood [210, 1946, 3792]; African Ebony [210]; Chinese Blackwood [1946, 3792]; East African Blackwood [3653]; Senegal Ebony [1946, 3653]; Sudan Ebony [1946]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Botswana (N) [8]; Burkina (N) [8]; Central African Rep. (N) [212]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [8]; Mali (N) [561]; Mozambique (N) [8]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [210]; South Africa (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [213]; Zambia (N) [28]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]
  Asia
India (I) [1914, 1946, 3027, 3792]; Karnataka [1946]; Kerala [3792]; Maharashtra [1946]; Tamil Nadu [3027]; Uttar Pradesh [1946]; West Bengal [1946]; Sri Lanka (I) [1957]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [210];
    Somalia-Masai woodland [210];
    Sudanian woodland [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 24, 210, 1946] ; Distribution Map [1946] ; Illustration [41, 42, 210, 3792]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Wood [14, 42, 210, 1946, 3030]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

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

8.

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

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

28.

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

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

41.

  Engler, A., 1912
    Die Vegetation der Erde:IX:Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3.1

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

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

212.

  Hepper, F.N., 1958
    Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

213.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge Vol.6.Dalbergieae,Vicieae,Phaseoleae.

561.

  Boudet, G. & Lebrun, J.-P., 1986
    Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.

1914.

  Sanjappa, M., 1992
    Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

1946.

  Thothathri, K, 1987
    Taxonomic Revision of the Tribe Dalbergieae in the Indian...

1957.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    A Revised Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon 7: 108-381.

3027.

  Nair, N.C. & Henry, A.N., 1983
    Flora of Tamil Nadu, India Vol.1

3030.

  Ambasta, S.P., 1986
    The useful plants of India

3653.

  Anonymous, 1979
    Tropical Legumes:Resources for the Future. Washington.

3792.

  Nair, K.K.N., 1986
    KFRI Research Report 43. Preservation of Dalbergia in Kerala
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