Mezoneuron benthamianum Baill.

Species

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Characteristics

A shrub or woody climber. It grows 8 m high. It has sharp thorns.
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Pods bright red.
Flowers yellow
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 9.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in waste places in dry deciduous forest or savannah in West Africa. It grows in palm groves and along the edges of mangroves.
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Humid and ruderal localities in dry deciduous woodland and savannah, but is especially common in gallery forest and on roadsides.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses environmental use food material medicinal social use
Edible leaves roots stems
Therapeutic use Chewstick (unspecified), Gonorrhea (unspecified), Hookworms (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Urethritis (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
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Distribution

Mezoneuron benthamianum world distribution map, present in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:507173-1
WFO ID wfo-0000195047
COL ID 42L7L
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Mezoneuron benthamianum Caesalpinia benthamiana