World Species : Parkia filicoidea (African Locust Bean)

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Parkia filicoidea (African Locust Bean)

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Synonyms: Parkia bussei; Parkia filicoidea var. hildebrandtii; Parkia hildebrandtii

Wikipedia Abstract

Parkia filicoidea Oliv. or African locust bean ('filicoidea' - fern-like foliage), is a large, spreading flat-crowned tree to 30 metres tall, the bole of which may be narrowly buttressed to a height of about 3 metres, and up to 120cm DBH. It occurs in wet evergreen or semi-deciduous forest, sometimes on forest fringes, riverbanks and lakes, termite mounds, at elevations up to 1000 metres from Côte d’Ivoire, east to Sudan and Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and south to Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Bark on trunk scaly or smooth, grey to yellow-brown, branchlets glabrous to puberulous.

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Attributes

Specific Gravity ^[1]	0.457
Structure ^[2]	Tree

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location	Species	Website	Climate	Land Use
East Usambara Biosphere Reserve		222395	Tanzania
Mahale Mountains National Park	II	398414	Tanzania

Predators

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External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ ²Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ ³Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009

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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