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Pterocarpus lucens Guill. & Perr.

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HIGHER TAXON: Dalbergieae

GENUS: Pterocarpus Jacq.

Pterocarpus lucens Guill. & Perr. [Preferred name]
    Pterocarpus abyssinicus Hochst. {Synonym}
    Pterocarpus leucens Guill. & Perr. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [210]; Central African Rep. (N) [212]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Mali (N) [210]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [210]; Senegal (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [212]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian wooded grassland [210];
    Sudanian woodland [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 210, 230] ; Distribution Map [57, 215] ; Illustration [10, 24, 210]

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

  
USES:
  Forage [14, 78]; Wood [14]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

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

10.

  Aubreville, A., 1950
    La Flore Forestiere Soudano-Guineene

14.

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

24.

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

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

78.

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

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.

215.

  Rojo, J.P., 1972
    Phanerog.Monogr. 5:1-119 Pterocarpus (Leguminosae-Papilion..

230.

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

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