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Machaerium lunatum (L.f.)Ducke

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HIGHER TAXON: Dalbergieae

GENUS: Machaerium Pers.

Machaerium lunatum (L.f.)Ducke [Preferred name]
    Drepanocarpus africanus G.Don {Synonym}
    Drepanocarpus lunatus (L.f.)G.Mey. {Synonym}
    Pterocarpus aptera Gaertn. {Synonym}
    Pterocarpus lunatus L.f. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Amourette [3162]; Aripillo [3162]; Atoelia [3162]; Aturia [3162]; Bodorie [3162]; Brandie Maka [3162]; Brandimakka [3162]; Bundary Bush [3162]; Chinese Earring [3162]; Cortica [3162]; Croc Chien [3162]; Mangle Piquant [3162]; Olvidanovia [3162]; Siete Conchas [3162]; Turia [3162]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [11]; Benin (N) [11]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Gambia The (N) [11]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Guinea Bissau (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Liberia (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Sao Tome & Principe (N) [217]; Senegal (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Togo (N) [23]; Zaire (N) [230]
  Caribbean
Caribbean-TRP (U) [1231, 1250, 1290, 1430, 1431, 1442]; Trinidad & Tobago (N) [3162]
  Central America
Belize (U) [1645]; Costa Rica (N) [3162]; Guatemala (U) [1645]; Mexico (U) [1645]; Nicaragua (N) [3162, 3348]; Panama (N) [1224, 1250, 1645, 3162]
  South America
Brazil (N) [1104, 1231, 1442, 1592, 3348]; Amazonas [1592]; Para [1592]; Rio De Janeiro [3348]; Colombia (N) [1104, 3162]; French Guiana (N) [1104, 1231, 1408, 3162]; Guyana (N) [1104, 3162]; Peru (U) [1442]; Surinam (N) [1104, 3162]; Venezuela (N) [1104, 1442, 3162]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian mangrove (and strand forest). [11];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [11, 230, 3162, 3348] ; Distribution Map [3162] ; Illustration [3162]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing, Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3348], 2005-10 Agababian M - Ed.scr.French Names ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993-12 Cavalcante de Lima H

  
USES:
  Food and Drink [3162]; Medicine [14, 3162]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

23.

  Ern, H., 1984
    Leguminosae. In:Flore analytique du Togo.Brunel,J.F. et al.

217.

  Liberato, Maria Candida, 1972
    Flora de Sao Tome e Principe: Papilionaceae

230.

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

1104.

  Bastos, N.doC., 1987
    Bol.Mus.Paraense Emilio Goeldi,Bot.3(2):183-278 ..Machaerium

1224.

  D'Arcy, W.G., 1987
    Monogr.Syst.Botany Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora Panama.

1231.

  Ducke, A., 1949
    Bol.Tecn.Inst.Agron.N.18:1-248 Notas Flora Neotropica-II:Ama

1442.

  Macbride, J.F., 1943
    Publ.Field Mus.Nat.Hist.,Bot.Ser.13(3/1):1-506 Leguminosae

1592.

  Rudd, V.E., 1987
    Phytologia 62(4):282-302 Studies in Machaerium VI.

1645.

  Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A, 1946
    Fieldiana, Bot. 24(5):1-425 Leguminosae

3162.

  Rudd, V.E., 1987
    Phytologia 64(1):1-12 Studies Machaerium(Leg.)VII.Sec.II

3348.

  Stevens, W.D., et al., 2001
    Flora de Nicaragua,85(2)...Missouri Bot.Gard.Press
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