Khaya senegalensis
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| Khaya senegalensis | |
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| Khaya senegalensis being used as a street tree | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Meliaceae |
| Genus: | Khaya |
| Species: | K. senegalensis |
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| Khaya senegalensis (Desr.) A. Juss. |
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Khaya senegalensis, commonly known as African mahogany, is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Australia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other common names for the species include Benin mahogany, dry zone mahogany, Senegal mahogany, cailcedrat, acajou, djalla, and bois rouge.
In West Africa it naturally occurs in gallery forests but is most often found as a shade tree of the old colonial streets.
The bark is often harvested as a traditional medicine.
[edit] Source
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Khaya senegalensis.
- 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.
- Northern Tropical Timbers - Khaya Fast Growing African Mahogany Trees.
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