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Pericopsis laxiflora (Baker)Meeuwen

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HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Pericopsis Thwaites

Pericopsis laxiflora (Baker)Meeuwen [Preferred name]
    Afrormosia laxiflora (Baker)Harms {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Benin (N) [212]; Cameroon (N) [212]; Central African Rep. (N) [212]; Chad (N) [64]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [224]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Mali (N) [212]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [212]; Togo (N) [212]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian woodland [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3, 212] ; Illustration [10]

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

  
USES:
  Medicine [14]; Wood [14]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

3.

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

10.

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

14.

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

64.

  Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
    IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

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.

224.

  D'Orey, J. & Liberato, Maria C., 1971
    Flora da Guinea Portuguesa: Papilionoideae
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