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Erythrina senegalensis DC.

HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Erythrina L.

Erythrina senegalensis DC. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Benin (N) [212]; Cameroon (N) [212]; Chad (N) [262]; Gambia The (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [224]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Liberia (N) [212]; Mali (N) [212]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Togo (N) [212]
Indian Ocean: Mauritius (I) [1915]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian woodland [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3, 12] ; Illustration [3, 10, 285]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

NOTES:
  recorded for Gabon but questionable. [285]


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

12.		Aubreville, A., 1936
		La Flore Forestiere de la Cote d'Ivoire. Vol.1

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

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

224.		D'Orey, J. & Liberato, Maria C., 1971
		Flora da Guinea Portuguesa: Papilionoideae

262.		Lebrun, J.-P. & Gaston, A., 1976
		Adansonia 2:381-390.1er Suppl. Cat pl.vasc.Tchad merid

285.		Krukoff, B.A. & Barneby, R.C., 1974
		Lloydia 37(3):332-459 Conspectus...of the genus Erythrina

1915.		Polhill, R, M., 1990
		Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a