Gilbertiodendron brachystegioides (Harms) J.Léonard

Native to:

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS G: 1-40325.
• Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• van der Burgt, X.M. & al. (2015). The Gilbertiodendron ogoouense species complex (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae), Central Africa. Kew Bulletin 70(29): 1-42. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Bulletin

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• Aubréville (1970: 206).
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• Sosef, M. S. M., Wieringa, J. J., Jongkind, C. C. H., Achoundong, G., Azizet Issembé, Y., Bedigian, D., Berg, R. G. van den, Breteler, F. J., Cheek, M., Degreef, J., Faden, R. B., Goldblatt, P., Maesen, L. J. G. van der, Ngok Banak, L., Niangadouma, R., Nzabi, T., Nziengui, B., Rogers, Z. S., Stévart, T., Valkenburg, J. L. C. H. van, Walters, G. & Wilde, J .J. F. E. de (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon (Checklist of Gabonese vascular plants). Scripta Bot. Belg. 35: 1 – 438.
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• Velayos, M., Aedo, C., Cabezas, F., Estrella, M. de la, Fero, M. & Barberá, P. (2010). Flora de Guinea Ecuatorial, Vol. V, Leguminosae. Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.
• Velzen, R. van & Wieringa, J. J. (2014). Rinorea calcicola (Violaceae), an endangered new species from south-eastern Gabon. Phytotaxa 167 (3): 267 – 275.
• Wieringa, J. J. & Mackinder, B. A. (2012). Novitates Gabonensis 79: Hymenostegia elegans and Hymenostegia robusta, two new threatened caesalpinioid legume species from Gabon. Nordic J. Bot. 30 (2): 144 – 152.
• Wieringa, J. J. (1999). Monopetalanthus exit. A systematic study of Aphanocalyx, Bikinia, Icuria, Michelsonia and Tetraberlinia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae). Wageningen Agr. Univ. Pap. 9 – 4: I – XVI, 1 – 320.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 24: 58 (1954).

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• van der Burgt, X.M. & al. (2015). The Gilbertiodendron ogoouense species complex (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae), Central Africa. Kew Bulletin 70(29): 1-42. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

International Legume Database and Information Service

• Keay, R. W. J. (1958). Flora of West Tropical Africa. Ed. 2;Vol. 1, part 2