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Bauhinia rufescens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Lamarck

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Algeria
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone. Sudan
• Togo

Natural Habitats

• Wooded savanna
• pondside
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Dec (Ghana) Aug (Cameroon)

Fruiting Times

Scandent much-branched shrub or tree to 15m, branchlets armed with short pointed lateral shoots. Glabrous leaves to 10mm x 12mm, apically divided to 50% of length. White flowers. Blackish, often twisted seedpods to 120mm x 10mm.

Chemical products, fibre, forage, medicine, wood

Further References

• CJB
• The Plant List 2
• FWTA
• ILDIS
• Jstor