Fabaceae

Brachystegia Benth.

First published in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker, Gen. Pl. 1: 582 (1865)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & S. Africa.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 2: 305.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Burtt Davy & Hutchinson in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1923: 129–163.
  • in Bentham & Hooker, Gen. Pl. 1: 582 (1865).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Hoyle & White in F.F.N.R.: 101 (1962)
  • Hoyle in F.C.B. 3: 446 (1952)
  • Trans. Linn. Soc. 25: 311 (1866)
  • in G.P. 1: 582 (1865)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Legumes of the World Online

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0