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Baphia capparidifolia Baker

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HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Baphia Lodd.

Baphia capparidifolia Baker [Preferred name]
    Baphia pyrifolia (Desv.)Baill. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Vahita [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [535]; Cameroon (N) [535]; Gabon (N) [535]; Guinea (N) [535]; Ivory Coast (N) [535]; Liberia (N) [535]; Nigeria (N) [535]; Sierra Leone (N) [535]; Tanzania (N) [535]; Uganda (N) [535]; Zaire (N) [535]; Zambia (N) [535]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [535, 3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [535];
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [535];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; bushland and thicket [210];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; forest. [210];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 535, 3402] ; Distribution Map [535] ; Illustration [535]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing [3402], Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

210.

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

535.

  Soladoye, M.O., 1985
    Kew Bull.40:291-386.A revision of Baphia (Leguminosae-Papi.)

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
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