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Millettia aboensis

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Name

Identification
Millettia aboensis (Hook.f.) Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Millettia zenkeri
  • Millettia aboensis
  • Millettia mannii
Common name
  • ndu ezi (NWT) (NIGERIA, IGBO-IZI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ofóní (píní) bị́ẹ (NIGERIA, IJO-IZON (Kolokuma)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • mkpukpu manya (NWT; KO&S) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ọgba otolo (NWT) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Ha)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • òdúdū (RFGA; Lowe) (NIGERIA, EFIK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • awo (Thompson; KO&S) erurumesi (Dennett) ukperurumwesi = tip of pig’s tail (Vermeer) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for Millettia aboensis (Hook. f.) Bak. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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
Millettia aboensis (Hook. f.) Bak. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in F.T.A. 2: 130 (1871); Dunn l.c. 41: 214; Bak. f. l.c. 238.
Millettia macrophylla var. aboensis Hook. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1849)
Millettia macrophylla [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], of F.W.T.A, ed1, 1: 382, partly (Talbot).
Information
A tree 30–40 ft. high, with reddish-brown pubescence on the petioles, branchlets, inflorescence and fruits; flowers purple in erect woody racemes up to 18 in. long.
Distribution
S. Nig. Benin (fl. & fr. Nov.) Chizea FHI 24477! Angiama Barter 148! Aboh Ansell! Onitsha (Sept.) Barter 1806! Onochie FHI 34053! 34054! 34109! Degema Talbot!
Distribution (external)
French Cameroons
Spanish Guinea

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