Pericopsis laxiflora

Botanical Description

Pericopsis laxiflora is a deciduous shrub or tree with a dishevelled crown of crooked, drooping branches; it usually grows from 9 - 13 metres tall, but is occasionally only a shrub up to 2 metres. The bole is usually twisted and crooked, up to 25cm in diameter[ 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 a popular traditional medicine and is commonly harvested from the wild for local use. It also provides a very good quality timber, but generally only in small dimensions and so is not suitable for commercial exploitation[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].