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Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir.

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HIGHER TAXON: Dalbergieae

GENUS: Pterocarpus Jacq.

Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. [Preferred name]

VERNACULAR NAME:
	Barwood [1902]; Kino [14]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Benin (N) [215]; Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [212]; Central African Rep. (N) [215]; Chad (N) [212]; Gabon (N) [212]; Gambia The (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [215]; Liberia (N) [215]; Mali (N) [215]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Togo (N) [212]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian woodland [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [3, 215] ; Illustration [3, 10, 215]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

USES:
	Chemical products [14]; Forage [14]; Medicine [14]; Wood [3, 14]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.		Keay, R.W.J. et al., 1964
		Nigerian Trees Vol.2

8.		Lock, J.M., 1985
		Specimen in Herb.Kew

10.		Aubreville, A., 1950
		La Flore Forestiere Soudano-Guineene

14.		Dalziel, J.M., 1937
		The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

78.		Peyre de Fabregues, B.& Lebrun, 1976
		IEMVPT Etude Botanique No.3. Catalogue des plantes..du Niger

212.		Hepper, F.N., 1958
		Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

215.		Rojo, J.P., 1972
		Phanerog.Monogr. 5:1-119 Pterocarpus (Leguminosae-Papilion..

1902.		Terrell, E.E., 1977
		Checklist of Names for 3,000 Vas.Pl... Agric.Handbook No.505

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