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Platycelyphium voense (Engl.)Wild

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HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Platycelyphium Harms

Platycelyphium voense (Engl.)Wild [Preferred name]
    Commiphora voensis Engl. {Synonym}
    Platycelyphium cyananthum Harms {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Somalia (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 540] ; Distribution Map [540] ; Illustration [24, 210, 540]

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

  
USES:
  Forage [42]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

42.

  Dale, I.R. & Greenway, P.J., 1961
    Kenya Trees and Shrubs

210.

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

540.

  Van der Maesen, L.J.G., 1970
    Acta Bot.Neerl.19:227-48.Primitiae Afr.8: (Cadia + 2)
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