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Ostryocarpus riparius Hook.f.

HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Ostryocarpus Hook.f.

Ostryocarpus riparius Hook.f. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Cameroon (N) [212]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [212]; Gabon (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Liberia (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Zaire (N) [212]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [18];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [18];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [212] ; Illustration [19, 212]

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

USES:
	Fibre [14]; Toxins [14]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

18.		Hall, J.B.& Swaine, M.D., 1981
		Forest Vegetation in Ghana.

19.		Ross, J.H., 1975
		Mimosoideae.In:Flora Southern Africa Vol.16,pt.1.Ross,J.H.

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