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Family : Caesalpiniaceae |
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Family (APGIII) : FABACEAE |
Protologue : Sp. Pl. 1: 34 (1753) |
| Information on the genus : Tamarindus |
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Status
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| Status for MA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for NA : | accepted (naturalised-introduced) |
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| Status for SA : | accepted (naturalised-introduced) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (naturalised-introduced) |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Tamarindus erythraea Mattei (1908) |
| =Tamarindus somalensis Mattei (1908) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Tree to 25 m with stout bole to 65 cm Ø, often with several trunks; crown dark, evergreen, low-branching, rounded. |
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see more in the book |
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| Ecology : |
Considered spontaneous, at least in an area from Mali to Niger, by certain botanists, in the drier parts of the sub-Saharan savanna, SC and E Africa across to W India where it has been dispersed by man world-wide. |
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Cultivated in the E Mediterrranean since Antiquity (mentioned first by Theophrastus, 4th Century BC). -See H. M. Burkill, Useful Pl. W. Trop. Afr. 3: 169-176, 1995. |
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But area of origin uncertain, probably Madagascar. Not mapped. |
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Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Food plants of Zimbabwe : 127-128 (1986).
- Fl. Zambes. 3[2]: 61 (2007).
- Fl. Zambes. 3[2]: 60,62 (2007).
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under Fgui |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Catalogue de Madagascar |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
| see under Tropicos |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
| see under Herbarium, North Africa MPU |
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| Record n°63570 modified 2007-04-17 |
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