Scientific Name : Dalbergia melanoxylon Guill. & Perr.
Category : Angiosperms
Status : NT
African Blackwood is a small tree, reaching 4 to15 m tall, with grey bark and spiny shoots. The leaves are deciduous in the dry season, alternate, 6 to 22 cm long, pinnately compound, with 8 to13 alternately arranged leaflets. Tip leaflet is 1.2 to 3.6 cm long by 1.2 to1.8 cm broad, obovate, broadly notched at the tip, or almost flat, with midrib projecting, more or less rounded at the base leaflet stalks slender, about 2 mm long. The flowers are white and produced in dense clusters. Stamens usually 9, united or variously divided. The fruit is a pod 3 to 7 cm long, containing one to two seeds. African Blackwood is native to Africa.
Specimen Information
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Common Name(s):
African Blackwood, African Ebony
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Synonym(s):
Amerimnon melanoxylon (Guill. & Perr.) Kuntze Amerimnon stocksii (Benth.) Kuntze Dalbergia stocksii Benth.
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Family:
Fabaceae
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