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Family : Caesalpiniaceae |
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Family (APGIII) : FABACEAE |
Protologue : Encycl. (Lamarck) 1(2): 391 (1785)  |
| Information on the genus : Bauhinia |
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Status
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| Status for NA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Adenolobus rufescens (Lam.) A. Schmitz |
| Piliostigma rufescens (Lam.) Benth. |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Bauhinia adansoniana Guill. & Perr. (1832) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Much branched (scandent) shrub or tree 4-15 m tall; branchlets often armed with pointed short lateral shoots. |
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| Ecology : |
Wooded savanna; edge of seasonal ponds; riverbanks; at the base of dunes; sandy, humid soils; also on laterite and rocky soils; sand on sandstone; sandy clayey soils; sometimes in pure stands (Ennedi); to 900-1020 m alt in Darfour. |
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Algeria (Tin Zaouaten). |
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Sometimes grown for ornament; can be trained to make a good hedge. Good camel fodder. |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and south Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing
Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Drug Pl. Africa : 79 (1949).
Bibliography for North Africa :
- BERHAUT, J. (1967). Flore du Sénégal (éd. 2).
- Fl. Afrique N. 16: 43 (1987).
- FENNANE, M. & M. IBN TATTOU (1998). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires rares, menacées ou endémiques du Maroc. Bocconea 8: 119
- LEBRUN, J. P. (1998). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires de la Mauritanie et du Sahara occidental. Boissiera 55: 121
- FENNANE, M. & M. IBN TATTOU (2005). Flore vasculaire du Maroc. Inventaire et chorologie [1]. Trav. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V, Sér. Bot. 37: 193
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
| see under Herbarium, North Africa MPU |
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