VERNACULAR NAME:

Red Nongo [43]; Sambalahy [3402]; Volomborona [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa

Angola (N) [1]; Cameroon (N) [1]; Ethiopia (N) [1]; Kenya (N) [1]; Malawi (N) [6]; Mozambique (N) [1]; Nigeria (N) [1]; Rwanda (N) [38]; Sudan (N) [1]; Tanzania (N) [1]; Uganda (N) [1]; Zaire (N) [1]; Zimbabwe (N) [1]

Indian Ocean

Madagascar (N) [1, 3402]

LITERATURE POINTERS:

Description [1, 6, 3402] ; Distribution Map [55] ; Illustration [1, 10]

DESCRIPTORS:

Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Nielsen IC & Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

USES:

Wood [9]

1. Brenan, J.P.M., 1959

Mimosoideae.In:Fl.Trop.East Africa.Hubbard & Milne-Redhead

6. Brenan, J.P.M., 1970

Mimosoideae.In:Flora Zambeziaca Vol.3(1).Brenan,JPM et al.

9. Eggeling, W.J. & Dale, I.R., 1952

The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate.

10. Aubreville, A., 1950

La Flore Forestiere Soudano-Guineene

11. Keay, R.W.J., 1958

Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

33. White, F., 1983

The Vegetation of Africa

38. Troupin, G., 1982

Flore des plantes ligneuses du Rwanda.

43. Hamilton, A., 1981

A field guide to Uganda Trees

55. Brenan, J.P.M., 1953

Kew Bull.7:507-537. The Albizia gummifera complex.

3402. Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002

The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.