Dialium dinklagei Harms

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Dialium

Characteristics

A tree. It grows to 15-20 m tall. The trunk is 50-90 cm wide. It has narrow buttresses. The crown is light and spreading or drooping.
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Forest tree, to 65 ft. high with buttressed stem and spreading crown with pendulous branches
Flowers greenish-yellow or greenish-brown
Fruits brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.5 - 0.9
Mature height (meter) 15.0 - 19.81
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

River and lagoon sides; humid gullies; evergreen and deciduous forest; somtimes in marshy places; half-deciduous forest with Celtis; scattered in many types of forest; at elevations up to 500 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows in evergreen and deciduous forests in West Africa.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses charcoal food fuel material medicinal wood
Edible fruits leaves
Therapeutic use Ache(Rib) (unspecified), Arthritis (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Dysuria (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Hematuria (unspecified), Jaundice (unspecified), Nosedrop (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Sore(Throat) (unspecified), Cold (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Yellow Fever (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Dialium dinklagei world distribution map, present in Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone

Conservation status

Dialium dinklagei threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:492304-1
WFO ID wfo-0000166552
COL ID 358YW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Dialium dinklagei Dialium klainei Dialium staudtii