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Khaya anthotheca

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Name

Identification
Khaya anthotheca C.DC. [family MELIACEAE ] (stored under name); Khaya anthotheca C.DC. [family MELIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Khaya senegalensis
  • Khaya anthotheca
  • Garretia anthoteca
  • Khaya wildemanii
Common name
  • (Guinea-Bissau) cáe (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, FULA-PULAAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • smooth-barked mahogany; white mahogany; ahafo mahogany, or ahafo timber (Ghana)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • bentia (auctt.) bentiene (JDES) betone (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDYAK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • bíssilom (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • unchónrô (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, BIDYOGO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • acajou blanc; acajou à peau lisse, ira (forestry, Ivory Coast, Aubréville)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • djaló (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • famé (JDES) iacume (JDES) támanii (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Khaya anthotheca (Welw.) C. DC. [family MELIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Khaya anthotheca (Welw.) C. DC. [family MELIACEAE], in DC. Monogr. 1: 72! (1878); Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv. 2: 118–124, t. 174, 1–3; For. Trees & Timbers Brit. Emp. 4: 57, fig. 9, t. 9; Harms l.c.; Staner in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brax. 16: 214; Pellegr. l.c. 30.
Garretia anthotheca Welw. [family MELIACEAE], (1859)
Khaya euryphylla Harms [family MELIACEAE], (1902)
Khaya mildbraedii Harms [family MELIACEAE], (1917)
Khaya agboensis A. Chev. [family MELIACEAE], in RevBotAppliq8: 209 (1928); ChevBot116, name only.
Information
A largeforesttree, to 180 ft. high, with ashy-brown, grey or almost white, smooth bark.
Habitat
forest
Range
extending to Uganda, Belgian Congo, Angola and (?) Tanganyika
Distribution
S.L.: Kosala, Pendembu (fr.IV.C.: Agboville (fr. Nov.) Chev. 22342! Krukoff 102! Abidjan Aubrév. 10! And other localities fide Aubrév. l.c.G.C.: Nyinahin, Ashanti Thompson 47! Pamu-Bereknm F.R. (fr. Sept.) Vigne FH 2516! Kibbi (Mar.) Brent 542!Br.Cam.: Johann-Albrechtshöhe (Mar.) Staudt 677!
Distribution (external)
French Cameroons
Notes
[There is no authentic record of this species from Nigeria. Barter 580 from Lokoja cited as K. anthotheca in the first edition is K. senegalensis.]

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