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Isoberlinia

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Isoberlinia

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Isoberlinia is a genus in the family Fabaceae of five species of tree native to the hotter parts of tropical Africa. They are an important component of miombo woodlands. The leaves have three or four pairs of large leaflets and stout seed pods.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderFabales
  5. FamilyFabaceae
Native toAngola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast
Observations recorded10,152

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
12
With media
10
Family
Fabaceae
Collections
MNHN, K
Recorded in
Togo, Zambie, Zambia, Cameroon

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Parent taxon
Detarieae
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Isoberlinia doka MS 4428.jpg
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Isoberlinia
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Category:Isoberlinia
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Isoberlinia
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Isoberlinia is a genus in the family Fabaceae of five species of tree native to the hotter parts of tropical Africa. They are an important component of miombo woodlands. The leaves have three or four pairs of large leaflets and stout seed pods.

Some former species in this genus were transferred to the genus Julbernardia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isoberlinia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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