African Plant Database


Tamarindus indica L.
Family : Caesalpiniaceae
Family (APGIII) : FABACEAE
Protologue : Sp. Pl. 1: 34 (1753)  
Information on the genus : Tamarindus
 
 
Status
Status for MA : accepted (present)
Status for NA : accepted (naturalised-introduced)
Status for SA : accepted (naturalised-introduced)
Status for TA : accepted (naturalised-introduced)
 
Synonym(s) Heterotypic
=Tamarindus erythraea Mattei (1908)
=Tamarindus somalensis Mattei (1908)
 
Ecology and distribution
Trop. Afr.
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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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.
  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.
  But area of origin uncertain, probably Madagascar. Not mapped.

Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
  • Exell, A. & Wild, H. (2007). Flora Zambesiaca: Mozambique, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Bechuanaland Protectorate. London Kew 3[2]: 61
  • Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and South Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing
  • César J. & C. Chatelain (2019). Flore illustrée du Tchad. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Coopération Suisse & Univ. N'Djaména

Bibliography for Southern Africa :
  • Food plants of Zimbabwe : 127-128 (1986).

Bibliography for North Africa :
  • ALI, S. I., S. M. H. JAFRI & A. EL GADI (ed.) (1978). Flora of Libya. 61: 7
  • LEBRUN, J. P. (1998). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires de la Mauritanie et du Sahara occidental. Boissiera 55: 123
  • FENNANE, M. & M. IBN TATTOU (1998). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires rares, menacées ou endémiques du Maroc. Bocconea 8: 130 
  • FENNANE, M. & M. IBN TATTOU (2005). Flore vasculaire du Maroc. Inventaire et chorologie [1]. Trav. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V, Sér. Bot. 37: 229

Bibliography other :
  • Peyre de Fabrègues B. & J. P. Lebrun (1976). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Niger. Maison Alfort
  • Boudet G. & J.P. Lebrun (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali. Etudes et Synthèses IEMVT 16
  • Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:218, 340 (2012)
 
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see under African Plants - a Photo Guide
see under Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden
see under Flora of Zimbabwe
see under Herbarium, North Africa MPU
 
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  • Tamarindus indica L.

    Tamarindus indica L.

    Tamarindus indica L.; Madagascar, Beanka, partie centrale; num.coll.: RFB 002; photo: Bolliger, R.F. & A. J. Tahinarivony

  • Tamarindus indica L.

    Tamarindus indica L.

    Tamarindus indica L.; Madagascar, Beanka, partie centrale; num.coll.: RFB 002; photo: Bolliger, R.F. & A. J. Tahinarivony
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