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Dialium guineense Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]

Date Updated: 5 February 2007

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
Dialium guineense Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], — F.T.A. 2: 283; Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv. 1: 206; Steyaert l.c. 39.
Information
Foresttree, to 60 ft. high, but often shrubby,sometimes persisting in savannah vegetation; flowers small in copious brownish flat panicles; petals white or pinkish; fruits black, seeds embedded in reddish pulp.
Habitat
Forest ~ sometimes persisting in savannah vegetation
Distribution
Sen. Heudelot 584! Casamance (fl. & fr. Apr.) Perrottet 299! Cape Verde to St. Louis (Mar.) Döllinger 39! R. Salum Brunner 135! N舗guer (Oct.) Chev. 2944!Gam. Hayes 503! Saunders 18!Port. G. Esp. Santo 1624! Formosa (fr. Apr.) Esp. Santo 1977!Fr. G. Kouroussa (fl.S. L. Smeathmann! Don! Regent Sc. Elliot 4178! Njala (fr. Feb.) Deighton 1933! Rokupr (fl.Lib. Gbanga (Sept.) Linder 768!Iv. C. Morénou Chev. 22427.G. C. Cape Coast Hove! Sekondi (Nov.) Vigne FH 1400! Accra Plains (fl. Oct., fr. Mar.) Brown 371! Howes 1138! Larte Hills (Nov.) Johnson 808! Abokobi (Oct.) Vigne FH 4257!Togo Lome (Nov.) Warnecke 211! Mildbr. 7494!Dah. Cotonou Chev. 4440.N. Nig. Agaie (Dec.) Yates 17! Lokoja (Sept.) Ansell! T. Vogel 168! Naraguta (Dec.舑Jan.) Lely 735! P. 12!S. Nig. Abeokuta Irving 77! Ogba (young fr. Dec.) Unwin 174! Onitsha Barter 1795!
Distribution (external)
Principe S. Tomé
Dialium guineense Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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