Overview
Common in Ghana (Hall and Swaine sp. 324); Guinea wide. Important timber tree , but often confused with other mahoganies by exploiters and as a young tree by tree spotters.
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
African Mahogany, Lagos Mahogany
Description
Physical Description
Species Khaya ivorensis
Very large tree , high-buttressed, with dark-green, rounded crown, often with the pendulous, spherical fruits visible.
Habitat
Ecology: It is found in various habitat types in west and central Africa but is most abundant in wet undisturbed evergreen forest .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : A.Chev. Publication : Vég. Utiles Afrique Trop. Franç. v. 207 (1909).
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. (CĂ´te d'Ivoire).
- Hawthorne, W. 1989. Letter to Sara Oldfield.
- Hawthorne, W. 1995. Categories of conservation priority and Ghanaian tree species (unpublished).
- 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.
- Songwe, C. 1990. Revised preliminary list of timbers of Cameroon with conservation categories.
- 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.
Notes
Contributors
- African Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Zimbabwe, July 1996) 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 02, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 02, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5878713
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15623057
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:578856-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 578856-1
- IUCN ID: 32234
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1020678
