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Lonchocarpus laxiflorus Guill. & Perr.

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Lonchocarpus Kunth

Lonchocarpus laxiflorus Guill. & Perr. [Preferred name]
    Philenoptera laxiflora (Guill. & Perr.)Roberty {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Burkina (N) [212]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Cape Verde (U) [268]; Chad (N) [212]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Gambia The (N) [210]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Mali (N) [212]; Niger (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [210]; Togo (N) [8]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [212]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahelian regional transition zone : woodland. [33];
    Sudanian wooded grassland [210];
    Sudanian woodland [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 230] ; Distribution Map [57] ; Illustration [9, 10, 29]

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]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

14.

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

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

57.

  Wickens, G.E., 1976
    Kew Bull.Addnl.ser.5. The flora of Jebel Marra (Sudan)...

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

212.

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

230.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge Vol.6. Dalbergieae,Vicieae,Phaseoleae

268.

  Sunding, P., 1999
    Check-list of plants of Cape Verde Islands.
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