| Milicia excelsa (Welw.) C.C.Berg |
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| Family : MORACEAE |
| Information on the genus : Milicia |
| Basionym : Morus excelsa Welw. |
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Status
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Chlorophora excelsa (Welw.) Benth. & Hook.f. (1867) |
| Morus excelsa Welw. (1869) |
| Maclura excelsa (Welw.) Bureau |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Chlorophora alba A.Chev. (1912) |
| =Chlorophora tenuifolia Engl. |
| =Milicia africana Sim |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Dioecious (or sometimes monoecious ?) tree to 30-50 m tall and with crown to 30 m wide; bole straight, cylindrical, clear to 20-28 m height, 2-2,5 m d.b.h., shortly buttressed or not; bark pale grey to ± black; branches patent[…] |
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see more in the book |
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| Ecology : |
Deciduous, semi-deciduous, or evergreen (primary and secondary) forests; apparently with preference for the drier types but also in ground-water forest; often in forest gallery; forest islands in savanna regions, or left there as single trees[…] |
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0-1350 m alt. Timber excellent, and becoming rare due to overexploitation (Kenya, fide Beentje). Young trees often galled. – Recently replanted in Malawi, after exploitation. |
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São Tomé, Bioko/Fernando Poo. |
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Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 52: 225-229 (1982).
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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| Record n°24632 |
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