Cynometra hankei

Botanical Description

Cynometra hankei is an evergreen tree that can grow 20 - 45 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be free of branches for more than half of the tree's height, up to 150cm in diameter and with buttresses[ 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. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for its wood, which is used locally and also traded. Despite much deforestation, there are still extensive areas of rain forest remaining in this ecoregion, particularly in the border region between Cameroon and Nigeria. Logging and plantation agriculture are the main causes of forests destruction and fragmentation in of forest habitat. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].