VERNACULAR NAME: |
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| Gum Arabic [14]; Kher [1902]; Senegal Gum [1902] | |
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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
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HABITATS:
Africa
Lake Victoria regional mosaic; bushland and thicket [33];
Sahel regional transition zone - wooded grassland. [33];
Sahel regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [33];
Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [33];
Sudanian woodland [33];
Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [33];
Zambezian wooded grassland [1];
Zambezian woodland [1];
Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [33];
LITERATURE POINTERS: |
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| Description [1, 50, 1882, 2010, 3367, 3403] ; Distribution Map [57, 101] ; Illustration [11, 41, 50, 1882, 2010, 3403] | |
DESCRIPTORS: |
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| Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova MS extract, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P | |
USES: |
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| Chemical products [14, 3030, 3382]; Domestic [1877]; Fibre [1877, 3030]; Food and Drink [14, 1877, 2059, 3030, 3034]; Forage [1877, 3030]; Medicine [14, 1877, 3030]; Wood [1877, 2010, 3030, 3382] | |
NOTES:
For ecology in Pakistan, see Cheema & Qadir, Vegetatio 27:131-162 (1973). []
Most important commercial source of best quality gum arabic [2059]
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