Dalbergia melanoxylon Guill. & Perr.

Native to:

Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka

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.
• Barry, J. P. & Celles, J.S. (1991). Flore de Mauritanie 1: 1-359. Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, Nice.
• Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
• Brummitt, R.K. & al. (2007). Flora Zambesiaca 3(3): 1-258. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
• 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.
• Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2012). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 4: 1-431. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
• Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
• Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter D: 1-30141.
• Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1989 publ. 1990). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 3: 1-659. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
• Kalema, J. & Beentje, H. (2012). Conservation checklist of the trees of Uganda: 1-235. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Lisowski, S. (2009). Flore (Angiospermes) de la République de Guinée. Scripta Botanica Belgica 41: 1-517.
• Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Mannheimer, C.A. & Curtis, B.A. (eds.) (2009). Le Roux and Müller's field guide to the trees and shrubs of Namibia, rev. ed.: 1-525. Macmillan Education Namibia, Windhoek.
• Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
• Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
• 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.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Aubrév. Fl. For. Soud.-Guln. 311, t. 63, 1–3.
• Bak. f. Leg. Trop. Afr. 2: 20
• Chev. Bot. 210
• —F.T.A. 2 233

Flora Zambesiaca

• in Guillemin, Perrottet & Richard, Fl. Seneg. Tent.: 227, fig.53 (1832).
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• —Baker f. in Legum. Trop. Africa: 520 (1929).
• —Baker in F.T.A. 2: 233 (1871).
• —Burtt Davy & Hoyle, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Brit. Emp., Nyasaland: 59 (1936).
• —Cronquist in F.C.B. 6: 54 (1954).
• —Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 5: 379 (1916).
• —Gomes e Sousa, Dendrol. Moçamb. Estudo Geral 1: 280 (1966).
• —Harms in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 407 (1900)
• —Harms in Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas 3(1): 629 (1915).
• —K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Sthn. Africa, ed.2: 319 (1988).
• —Klotzsch in Peters, Naturw. Reise Mossamb. 6(1): 27 (1861).
• —M. Coates Palgrave, Trees Sthn. Africa: 386, fig.105 (2002).
• —Mendonça & Torre in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultramar, Sér. Bot. 1: 28 (1950).
• —Miller in J. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 30 (1952).
• —Palmer & Pitman, Trees Sthn. Africa: 934–936 (1972).
• —Pardy in Rhod. Agric. J. 52: 514 (1955).
• —Polhill in F.T.E.A., Legum., Pap.: 100, fig.21 (1971).
• —Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Africa: 41 (1909).
• —Sousa in C.F.A. 3: 347 (1966).
• —Taubert in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 217 (1895).
• —White, F.F.N.R.: 148 (1962).

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
• Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
• 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.
• Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Lisowski, S. (2009). Flore (Angiospermes) de la République de Guinée. Scripta Botanica Belgica 41: 1-517.
• Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
• Pasha, M.K. & Uddin, S.B. (2013). Dictionary of plant names of Bangladesh, Vasc. Pl.: 1-434. Janokalyan Prokashani, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Bak. f., Leguminosae of Tropical Africa: 520 (1929).
• Bak. in Flora of Tropical Africa 2: 233 (1871).
• Battiscombe & Dale, Trees and Shrubs of Kenya Colony p. 81 (1936).
• Cronquist in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 6: 54 (1954).
• Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 362, fig. 71 (1961).
• E. P. Sousa in Consp. Fl. Angol. 3: 347 (1966).
• Eggeling & Harris, Fifteen Ug. Timbers: 93, t. 15, fig. 14 (1939).
• F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 2: 192 (1952).
• F. White, Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia p. 148 (1962).
• Guill. & Perr. in Fl. Seneg. Tent.: 227, t. 53 (1832).
• Harms in A. Engler & O. Drude, Die Vegetation Der Erde, IX, Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3 (1): 629, fig. 304 (1915).
• Harms in A. Engler, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 28: 407 (1900)
• Hepper in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 515 (1958).
• J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 418 (1949).
• Taub. in Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete, Theile C: 217 (1895).
• W.J. Eggeling, Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate, ed. 2: 300, photo. 50, fig. 64 (1952).

International Legume Database and Information Service

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• Anonymous (1979). Tropical Legumes:Resources for the Future. Washington.
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• Nair, K. K. N. (1986). KFRI Research Report 43. Preservation of Dalbergia in Kerala
• Thothathri, K (1987). Taxonomic Revision of the Tribe Dalbergieae in the Indian...