Taxon: Dialium guineense Willd.

 
Genus: Dialium
Family: Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)
Subfamily: Dialioideae
Nomen number: 13792
Place of publication: Arch. Bot. (Leipzig) 1(1):31, t. 6. 1796
Link to protologue:
Typification:
Name Verified on: 01-dic-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 22-dic-2009
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

  • Sierra Leone-tamarind  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
  • velvet-tamarind  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English

Economic Importance:

  • Human food: fruit (fide Trop Leg)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Africa
    • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon (n.)
    • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo


References:

  1. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. Flore du Cameroun. 1963- (F Cameroun)
  2. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
  3. National Academy of Sciences Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979 (Trop Leg)

Check other web resources for Dialium guineense Willd. :

  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=13792. Accessed 19 mayo 2024.