Bridelia micrantha (Hochst.) Baill.

First published in Adansonia 3: 164 (1863)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & S. Africa. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Réunion

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
  • Breteler, F.J. (2012). Flore du Gabon 43: 1-107. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Margraf Publishers, Weikersheim; Meise Botanic Garden.
  • Brundu, G. & Camarda, I. (2013). The Flora of Chad: a checklist and brief analysis. PhytoKeys 23: 1-18.
  • Calane da Silva, M., Izdine, S. & Amuse, A.B. (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Mozambique: 1-184. SABONET, Pretoria.
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  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
  • Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
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  • Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Alves, T., Francisco, J., Harris, T., Nangoma, D. & de Sousa, C. (2009). Biodiversity and Conservation of Mchese Mountain, Malawi. Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036: 1-71. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Velayos, M., Barberá, P., Cabezas, F.J., de la Estrella, M., Fero, M. & Aedo, C. (2014). Checklist of the vascular plants of Annobón (Equatorial Guinea). Phytotaxa 171: 1-78.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv. 2: 36, t. 132
  • Chev. Bot. 554
  • Fl. For. Soud.-Guin. 179–182.
  • —F.T.A. 6, 1: 620

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
  • Brundu, G. & Camarda, I. (2013). The Flora of Chad: a checklist and brief analysis. PhytoKeys 23: 1-18.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

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  • Baill., Adansonia 3: 164 (1862–3).
  • Battiscombe & Dale, Trees and Shrubs of Kenya Colony p. 47 (1936).
  • Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 187 (1961).
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 2: 56 (1952).
  • F. White, Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia p. 194 (1962).
  • Hutch. in Flora of Tropical Africa 6(1): 620 (1912).
  • J. Léon. in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 8(1): 46 (1962).
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  • Robyns, Flore des Spermatophytes du Parc National Albert 1: 447 (1948).
  • Troupin, Fl. Pl. Lign. Rwanda: 251, t. 86.1 (1982)
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