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Klainedoxa gabonensis

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Wikipedia Abstract

Klainedoxa gabonensis Pierre is a large tropical African tree of the family Irvingiaceae growing to 40m in height. Its straight trunk is buttressed and up to 25m long, while its spreading evergreen crown makes it one of the largest trees of the rainforest. It is found from Senegal to Sudan, Cameroons, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania, growing as far south as Angola and Zambia.
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Attributes

Janka Hardness [2]  2550 lbf (1157 kgf) Very Hard
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Specific Gravity [3]  0.926
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

Cephalophus silvicultor (yellow-backed duiker)[4]
Loxodonta africana (African Bush Elephant)[5]

Consumers

Shelter for 
Doryrhina cyclops (cyclops roundleaf bat)[6]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 3Chave 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.
♦ 4Cephalophus silvicultor, Susan Lumpkin and Karl R. Kranz, Mammalian Species No. 225, pp. 1-7 (1984)
♦ 5Forest elephant group composition, frugivory and coastal use in the Réserve de Faune du Petit Loango, Gabon, Bethan J. Morgan and P. C. Lee, African Journal of Ecology, Volume 45, Issue 4, pp. 519 - 526
♦ 6Hipposideros cyclops, Jan Decher and Jakob Fahr, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 763, pp. 1–7 (2005)
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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