Common Names
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Common Names in English:
African Mango Seed, African Mango Tree, African Wild Mango, Bread Tree, Dika Bread, Dika Nut, Dikka, Duiker Nut, Native Mango, Wild Mango, Wild Mango Nut
Common Names in French:
Bobo (Gabon), Dika Du Gabon, Mangue Du Gabon, Mangue Sauvage (Fruit), Manguier Du Gabon, Manguier Sauvage (Plant), Oba (Gabon), Odika, Sioko (Ivory Coast)
Common Names in German:
Dikanuß, Wilder Mangobaum
Common Names in Hausa:
Biri, Goron
Common Names in Japanese:
Afurika Mango No Ki
Common Names in Spanish:
Arbol Chocolate, Irvingia
Common Names in Yoruba:
Oro
Description
Habitat
Ecology: Tropical evergreen rainforest is the optimal habitat for this species. However, it occurs also in gallery forest and semi-deciduous forest and is often found in towns or on the outskirts of villages. It is restricted to fairly wet, well-drained loamy to clayey soils.[1]
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Malpighiales
()
- Family:
Chalcidoidea
()
- Genus:
Irvingia
()
- Specific epithet:
gabonensis
- (Aubry-Lecomte ex O'Rorke) Baill.
- Botanical name: - Irvingia gabonensis (Aubry-Lecomte ex O'Rorke) Baill.
- Specific epithet:
gabonensis
- (Aubry-Lecomte ex O'Rorke) Baill.
- Genus:
Irvingia
(
- Family:
Chalcidoidea
(
- Order:
Malpighiales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Irvingia barteri Hook. F.
- Irvingia caerulea Tiegh.
- Irvingia duparquetii Tiegh.
- Irvingia erecta Tiegh.
- Irvingia griffonii Tiegh.
- Irvingia hookeriana Tiegh.
- Irvingia pauciflora Tiegh.
- Irvingia velutina Tiegh.
- Mangifera gabonensis Aubry-Lecomte Ex O'rorke
Notes
Publishing author : Tiegh. Publication : in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. IX. i. 254. Publishing author: Tiegh. Publication: in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. IX. i. 257. Publishing author: Tiegh. Publication: in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. IX. i. 256. Publishing author: Aubry-Lecomte ex O'Rorke Publication: J. Pharm. Chim. Sér. 3, 31: 275 1857 Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Wilson K .L.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Irvingia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
I. barteri · I. caerulea · I. duparqueti · I. erecta · I. excelsa · I. fusca · I. gabonensis (African Mango Seed) · I. glaucescens · I. grandifolia · I. griffoni · I. harmandiana · I. laeta · I. lobata · I. longepedicellata · I. malayana (Barking Deer´s Mango) · I. mossambicensis · I. nodosa · I. oliveri · I. pauciflora · I. platycarpa · I. robur · I. smithii · I. tenuifolia · I. tenuinucleata · I. velutina · I. wombolu · I. wombulu
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Further Reading
- Applied and economic botany, especially adapted for the use of students in technical schools, agricultural, pharmaceutical and medical colleges, and also as a book of reference for chemists, food analysts and students engaged in by Henry Kraemer illu Philadelphia, The author[c1914] ENG url p. 586.
- Botanisches Zentralblatt; referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 407.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. ENG url p. 366.
- Der Tropenpflanzer; zeitschrift fr tropische landwirtschaft. Berlin. GER url p. 122.
- Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreichs: versuch einer Technischen Rohstofflehre des Pflanzenreiches / Unter Mitwirkung von Max Bemberger, von Julius von Wiesner. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1914. GER url p. 638, p. 674, p. 752.
- Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. ENG url p. 1269.
- FAO Forestry Department. 1986. Databook on endangered tree and shrub species and their provenances. FAO, Rome.
- Hawthorne, W. 1990. Field Guide to the Forest Trees of Ghana. Natural Resources Institute, Chatham and the Overseas Development Administration, London. 278 pp.
- Hawthorne, W.D. 1995. Ecological Profiles of Ghanaian Forest Trees. Oxford Forestry Institute.
- Hecketsweiler, P.H. 1990. Incomplete list of the commercially exploited timber species of Congo (Brazzaville).
- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M. and Hepper, F.N. 1927. Flora of West Tropical Africa. Published by the English Ministry of State for the Colonies.
- International catalogue of scientific literature. London: Published for the International Council by the Royal Society of London, 1902-1919. ENG url p. 375, p. 504.
- Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 1096, p. 1366, p. 1368, p. 143, p. 194, p. 440, p. 498, p. 499, p. 603, p. 928, p. 982.
- Katende, A.B. 1995. Annotations to: WCMC printout of Trees of Uganda dated 23 Nov. 1995.
- Knox, Eric B. 1995. The List of East African Plants (LEAP): An electronic database (Draft).
- L'Agricoltura coloniale. Firenze, Istituto agronomico per l'Africa italiana [etc.] ITA url p. 18, p. 304.
- Seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1903-1913. ENG url p. 14, p. 27, p. 59.
- Wissenschaftliche ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Africa-Expedition, 1907-1908: unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1910- ENG url p. 428, p. 705.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 02, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- IOPI Global Plant Checklist 2005.
- IOPI-GPC
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 02, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3906485
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: IOP-103513
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13691740
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:813766-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 813766-1
- IUCN ID: 33055
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 432440
Footnotes
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
