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Albizia coriaria Oliv.

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HIGHER TAXON: Ingeae

GENUS: Albizia Durazz.

Albizia coriaria Oliv. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Mugavu [43]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [1]; Benin (N) [11]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Ghana (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [1]; Kenya (N) [1]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Sudan (N) [1]; Tanzania (N) [1]; Togo (N) [11]; Uganda (N) [1]; Zaire (N) [11]; Zambia (N) [6]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [11];
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transitional zone; wooded grassland. [11];
    Somalia-Masai woodland [1];
    Sudanian woodland [11];
    Zambezian woodland [1];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1] ; Distribution Map [53] ; Illustration [12]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Nielsen IC & Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

  
USES:
  Toxins [52]; Wood [9]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1959
    Mimosoideae.In:Fl.Trop.East Africa.Hubbard & Milne-Redhead

6.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1970
    Mimosoideae.In:Flora Zambeziaca Vol.3(1).Brenan,JPM et al.

9.

  Eggeling, W.J. & Dale, I.R., 1952
    The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate.

11.

  Keay, R.W.J., 1958
    Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

12.

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

43.

  Hamilton, A., 1981
    A field guide to Uganda Trees

52.

  Verdcourt, B. & Trump, E.C., 1969
    Common Poisonous Plants of East Africa

53.

  Knapp, R., 1973
    Die Vegetation von Afrika.
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