Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Pterocarpus > Pterocarpus santalinoidesPterocarpus santalinoides (Mututi)Synonyms: Amphymenium longifolium; Ancylocalyx acuminata; Lingoum esculentum; Pterocarpus amazonicus; Pterocarpus ancylocalyx; Pterocarpus esculentus; Pterocarpus grandis; Pterocarpus michelii Pterocarpus santalinoides is a tree species in the legume family (biology) (Fabaceae); it is locally known as mututi. It has a remarkable bi-continental distribution, native to tropical western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo) and also to South America (Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela). |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-Low |  | | Specific Gravity [2] | 0.53 |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367 ♦ 3The Diet of the Olive Colobus Monkey, Procolobus verus, in Sierra Leone, John F. Oates, International Journal of Primatology, Vol 9, No. 5, 1988, pp. 457-478 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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