Benth. [Preferred name]
VERNACULAR NAME:
Ariza [2344];
Caleno [2344];
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
- Africa
-
Uganda (I) [106, 2343]
- Asia
-
India (I) [2343]
- Caribbean
-
Grenada (I) [2343];
Trinidad & Tobago (I) [2343]
- Central America
-
Panama (N) [2345]
- Indian Ocean
-
Mauritius (I) [1915]
- South America
-
Colombia (N) [2344];
Venezuela (N) [2345]
HABITATS:
Africa
Cultivated
LITERATURE POINTERS:
Description [1915, 2344, 2345]
; Distribution Map [2344]
; Illustration [261, 2344, 2345]
DESCRIPTORS:
Climbing: Not climbing [1915]
; Conservation Status: Not Threatened
; Habit: Tree [1915]
; Lifespan: Perennial [1915]
; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)
USES:
Environmental [106, 2344];
Medicine [2344]
NOTES:
Cultivated plants are considered hybrids. [1915]
Characters of this species are intermediate between B.grandiceps and [1915]
B.latifolia. [1915]
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Caesalp.In:Flora Trop.East Africa. Milne-Redhead & Polhill
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Thesis-Univ. Central de Venezuela 50 pp. Rev. Brownea Jacq.
1915.
Polhill, R, M., 1990
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Quinones, L.M., 1989
Specimen in Herb.Kew
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Quinones, L.M., 1988
Rev.de las Sp. Colombianas de Brownea
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Velasquez, D. & Agostini, G., 1981
Revision Sp. Venez. del genero Brownea. Tesis de Grado