Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Baphia pubescens Hook.f..

Baphia pubescens Hook.f.

HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Baphia Lodd.

Baphia pubescens Hook.f. [Preferred name]
Baphia bancoensis Aubrev. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Benin (N) [212]; Cameroon (N) [535]; Gabon (N) [535]; Ghana (N) [535]; Ivory Coast (N) [535]; Liberia (N) [535]; Nigeria (N) [535]; Togo (N) [535]; Zaire (N) [535]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [535];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [535];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3, 12, 535] ; Distribution Map [535]

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

USES:
	Chemical products [14]; Medicine [14]; Wood [14]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

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

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

535.		Soladoye, M.O., 1985
		Kew Bull.40:291-386.A revision of Baphia (Leguminosae-Papi.)