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Pterocarpus erinaceus

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Name

Identification
Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Pterocarpus erinaceus
Common name
  • ven (French, the timber); vêne (French, the timber): kino (the resin); madobia (the timber, Nigeria, Lucas)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • Senegal rosewood; African rosewood; black camwood; African teak; African kino; Gambian kino., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • palissandre du Sénégal (rosewood of Senegal); santal., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for PTEROCARPUS erinaceus Poir. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
PTEROCARPUS erinaceus Poir. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], DC. Prod. ii. 419. Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 229 t. 54.
PTEROCARPUS Adansonii DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], loc. cit.
PTEROCARPUS angolensis DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], loc. cit.
PTEROCARPUS echinatus DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], loc. cit.
Information
A tree often 40–50 ft. high with slender woody densely grey-pubescent branchlets. Petioles 1–2 in. long; leaves 6 in. to a foot long, with 5–15 distinctly stalked alternate ovate or oblong leaflets, which are 2–4 in. long, rounded at the base, subacute, glabrous above, often at first finely pubescent below. Flowers in copious panicles with 20–30-flowered racemose branches. Pedicels and obconical calyx finely grey-pubescent, the latter 2 1/2 lines long with short subdeltoid teeth. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx, the standard orbicular, 3/8 in. broad, purple on the back, the upper stamen free or connate at the base. Pod round, 2–3 in. broad when fully developed, the membranous wing rather broader than the densely echinate disk; style lateral or deflexed; pedicel about as long or twice as long as the calyx.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Dr. Welwitsch!Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot! Perrottet!Niger Upper Guinea Barter!
Notes
Produces the African gum Kino, and the wood much used. See R. Brown's remarks on Oudney's Travels, p. 29, and Hooker in Gray's Travels in West Africa, p. 395. It flowers in November and December, and the seeds are ripe in May.

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