Fabaceae FAMILY

Brachystegia leonensis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Brachystegia leonensis is a tree with a moderately sized, fairly open crown of ascending branches; it can grow up to 45 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be unbranched for up to 30 metres; 70 - 200cm in diameter, usually with thick, heavy buttresses up to 1.8 metres high[ 848 Title Tropix 7 Publication Author Website http://tropix.cirad.fr/en Publisher CIRAD Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line guide to the timbers of 245 species of trees. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for its wood, which is used locally and also exported.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire.

HabitatAn emergent tree growing on ridges and in valleys near water of evergreen rain-forest; sometimes locally abundant; upper rocky hill slopes; open woodlands; at elevations from 200 - 500 metres[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ].