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Brya ebenus (L.)DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Brya P.Browne

Brya ebenus (L.)DC. [Preferred name]
    Aspalathus ebenus L. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  American Ebony [1902]; Coccus Wood [1056, 1902]; Cocos Wood [1415]; Cocus Wood [1415]; Espino De Sabana [1415]; Green Ebony [1415]; Jamaican Ebony [1415]; West Indian Ebony [1056, 1415, 1902]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Asia
India (I) [1415, 3366, 3376, 3618]; Karnataka [3366]; Orissa [3376]; West Bengal [3618]
  Caribbean
Cuba (N) [1056, 1409, 1415, 1429, 1430]; Jamaica (N) [1056, 1409, 1415, 1429, 1430]; Puerto Rico (I) [1429, 1430]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1056, 1415, 1430] ; Illustration [1415]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Insufficiently known ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 Zarucchi JL, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Miscellaneous [3618]; Wood [1056, 3618]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1056.

  Adams, C.D., 1972
    Flowering Plants of Jamaica Univ. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

1409.

  Leon, H. & Alain, H., 1951
    Flora de Cuba 2:224-367 Leguminosas

1415.

  Lewis, G.P., 1988
    Willdenowia 18:223-229 Four... Spp. Leguminosae from Cuba

1429.

  Liogier, A.H., 1980
    Phytologia 47(3):167-198 Novitates Antillanae. VIII

1430.

  Liogier, A.H., 1988
    Desc. Flora Puerto Rico & Adjacent Is-Spermatophyta Vol. II

1902.

  Terrell, E.E., 1977
    Checklist of Names for 3,000 Vas.Pl... Agric.Handbook No.505

3366.

  Sanjappa, M., 2000
    Checklist of the Leguminosae in South Asia. Typescript

3376.

  Bairiganjan, G.C et al., 1985
    Fabaceae in Orissa. J. Econ. Taxon Bot. 7:249-276

3618.

  Benthall, A.P., 1946
    The trees of Calcutta. Calcutta.

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