Khaya anthotheca

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• Description
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• Notes

Overview

Vulnerable

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,218 meters (0 to 3,996 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species is widespread in areas of evergreen forest .[2]

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Garretia anthotheca Welw.

Notes

Publishing author : C.DC. Publication : Monogr. Phan. i. 721.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Khaya

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

K. agboensis · K. anthotheca (Nyasaland Mahogany) · K. anthothetica · K. canaliculata · K. caudata · K. comorensis · K. dawei · K. euryphylla · K. grandifolia · K. grandifoliola (Large-Leaved Mahogany) · K. grandis · K. ivorensis (African Mahogany) · K. kerstingii · K. kissiensis · K. klainei · K. madagascariensis · K. mildbraedii · K. nyasica (Nyasaland Mahogany) · K. punchii · K. senegalensis (African Mahogany) · K. wildemanii

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Further Reading

• Ake Assi, L. 1990. Annotated WCMC list of timber species for the Ivory Coast. (Côte d'Ivoire).
• Gelderblom, C. 1994. Letter to Dr Kerry Walter concerning lists of threatened plants in Southern Africa dated 7 March 1994.
• Hawthorne, W. 1995. Categories of conservation priority and Ghanaian tree species (unpublished).
• 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.
• 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).
• Styles, B.T. and White, FF. 1991. Meliaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
• Thorne, J.M. 1979. Liberia. Part of appendix to: Possibilities and needs for conservation of plant species and vegetation in Africa. In: I. Hedberg (ed.) Systematic Botany, Plant Utilization and Biosphere Conservation, pp.88. Almqvist and Wiksell International, Stockholm.
• Timberlake, J.R. 1996. Annotations to the conservation listing of trees of Zimbabwe.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 15, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Hawthorne, W. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Hawthorne, W. 1998. Khaya anthotheca. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 15, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5878864
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15623049
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:578847-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 578847-1
• IUCN ID: 32235
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1020679

Footnotes

1. Mean = 430.360 meters (1,411.942 feet), Standard Deviation = 426.230 based on 22 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Hawthorne, W. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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