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Philenoptera cyanescens (Schum. & Thonn.)Roberty

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Philenoptera A.Rich.

Philenoptera cyanescens (Schum. & Thonn.)Roberty [Preferred name]
    Lonchocarpus cyanescens (Schum. & Thonn.)Benth. {Synonym}
    Robinia cyanescens Schum. & Thonn. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Yoruba Indigo [212]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Benin (N) [212]; Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [212]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Liberia (N) [212]; Mali (N) [8]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Togo (N) [212]
  Asia
Sri Lanka (I) [1957]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [18];
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [18];
    Sudanian bushland and thicket [212];
    Sudanian forest. [18];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [212] ; Illustration [212]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing, Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Chemical products [14, 212]; Medicine [14]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

14.

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

18.

  Hall, J.B.& Swaine, M.D., 1981
    Forest Vegetation in Ghana.

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.

1957.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    A Revised Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon 7: 108-381.
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