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Pterocarpus angolensis DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Dalbergieae

GENUS: Pterocarpus Jacq.

Pterocarpus angolensis DC. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  African Teak [226]; Muninga [210]; Transvaal Teak [226]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [230]; Namibia (N) [210]; South Africa (N) [210]; Swaziland (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [28]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Zambezian woodland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 230] ; Distribution Map [231] ; Illustration [210, 410]

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 [213]; Medicine [121, 230]; Wood [210]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

28.

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

121.

  Watt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M, 1962
    Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa

210.

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

213.

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

226.

  Palmer, E. & Pitman, N., 1977
    Trees of Southern Africa,Vol.2

230.

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

231.

  Boaler, S.B., 1966
    MOD Overseas Res.Publ 12. Ecol. of Pterocarpus angolensis

410.

  Onderstall, J., 1984
    Transvaal Lowveld & Escarpment... South Afr.Wild Fl.Guide 4.

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