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Leucaena spontanea C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris

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HIGHER TAXON: Mimoseae

GENUS: Leucaena Benth.

Leucaena spontanea C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Chalip [2919]; Guaje [2919]; Wild Tamarind [2919]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Asia
Philippines (I) [2919]
  Australasia
Papua New Guinea (I) [2919]
  Caribbean
Dominican Republic (I) [2919]; Haiti (I) [2919]; Jamaica (I) [2919]
  Central America
Guatemala (U) [2919]; Honduras (I) [2919]; Mexico(North & Central) (U) [2919]; Veracruz [2919]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [2919] ; Distribution Map [2919] ; Illustration [2919]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1999-09 Hughes CE ; Source(s): 1999-07 Heald J

  
USES:
  Food and Drink [2919]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2919.

  Hughes, C., 1998
    Syst.Bot.Monographs 55. Monograph of Leucaena
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