Vitellaria paradoxa subsp. paradoxa

This subspecies is accepted

The native range of this subspecies is W. Tropical Africa to Ethiopia. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo

Bassia parkii G.Don in Gen. Hist. 4: 36 (1837)
Butyrospermum mangifolium (Pierre ex A.Chev.) A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 2: 35 (1907)
Butyrospermum paradoxum subsp. parkii (G.Don) Hepper in Taxon 11: 227 (1962)
Butyrospermum parkii (G.Don) Kotschy in Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Cl., Abt. 1, 50: 359 (1865)
Butyrospermum parkii var. cuneatum A.Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 23: 107 (1943), not validly publ.
Butyrospermum parkii var. ferrugineum A.Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 23: 108 (1943), not validly publ.
Butyrospermum parkii var. floccosum A.Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 23: 108 (1943), not validly publ.
Butyrospermum parkii var. mangifolium Pierre ex A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 2(2): 32 (1907)
Butyrospermum parkii var. parvifolium A.Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 23: 106 (1943), not validly publ.
Butyrospermum parkii var. poissonii A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 2(2): 32 (1907)
Butyrospermum parkii var. serotinum A.Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 23: 107 (1943), not validly publ.
Butyrospermum poissonii (A.Chev.) A.Chev. in Vég. Ut. Afr. Trop. Franç. 2(2): 43 (1907)
Mimusops capitata Baker in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1895: 149 (1895)
Mimusops pachyclada Baker in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1895: 149 (1895)

Barry, J. P. & Celles, J.S. (1991). Flore de Mauritanie 1: 1-359. Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, Nice.
Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Barry, J. P. & Celles, J.S. (1991). Flore de Mauritanie 1: 1-359. Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, Nice.
Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
Lebrun, J.-P., Audru, J., Gaston, A. & Mosnier, M. (1972). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Tchad Méridional: 1-289. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
Lebrun, J.P., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
Lisowski, S. (2009). Flore (Angiospermes) de la République de Guinée. Scripta Botanica Belgica 41: 1-517.

Reference	Identified As	Barcode	Has image?
Poisson, E. [90]		K000435337	Yes
Lamb, P., Nigeria	Butyrospermum parkii	22089.000	No
Lamb, P.H., Nigeria	Butyrospermum parkii	22221.000	No

Kew Backbone Distributions
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- © Copyright 2022 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 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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