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Pericopsis elata (Harms)Meeuwen

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HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Pericopsis Thwaites

Pericopsis elata (Harms)Meeuwen [Preferred name]
    Afrormosia elata Harms {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Afrormosia [212]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [3]; Uganda (I) [210]; Zaire (N) [212]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 467] ; Illustration [12, 467]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Vulnerable [2414] ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 1995 Heald J

  
USES:
  Wood [210]

  
NOTES:
  but may be so if uncontrolled trade continues [2414]

  
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

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

212.

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

467.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1953
    Flore Du Congo Belge 4. Genisteae,Sophoreae.

2414.

  Akeroyd, J. et al., 1994
    A CITES Manual for Botanic Gardens. BGCI

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