Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Amphimas pterocarpoides Harms.

Amphimas pterocarpoides Harms

HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Amphimas Harms

Amphimas pterocarpoides Harms [Preferred name]

VERNACULAR NAME:
	Bokanga [13]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Cameroon (N) [11]; Central African Rep. (N) [111]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Liberia (N) [11]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [11]; Zaire (N) [11]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3, 7, 13] ; Illustration [7, 12, 13]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

USES:
	Medicine [13]; Wood [13]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

7.		Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1952
		Flore du Congo Belge,Vol.3. Mimosoideae, Caesalpinoideae.

11.		Keay, R.W.J., 1958
		Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

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

13.		Voorhoeve, A.G., 1965
		Liberian High Forest Trees

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

111.		Aubreville, A., 1965
		9.Caesalpinoideae.In:Flora du Cameroun.Aubreville & Leroy