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Dialium polyanthum

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Species of legume

Dialium polyanthum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Dialium
Species: D. polyanthum
Binomial name
Dialium polyanthum
Harms
Synonyms
  • Dialium aubrevillei Pellegr.
  • Dialium corbisieri Staner

Dialium polyanthum is a species of flowering plant, a medium to large tree in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Dialioideae.

The trees grow in flooded forest or on dry ground, on swamp- and stream sides, reaching 35 m in height with a bole up to 100 cm in diameter. which occurs in Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa, Gabon, Cabinda and Northern Angola.

Uses

Wood

Also known as Dialium aubrevillei, its heavy, pinkish-brown wood, with a density of about 1020 kg/m³ at 12% moisture content, is very hard. The wood is locally used as firewood and for charcoal production, but it can also been used for construction.

Fruit

The fruits are used in traditional medicine.

References

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Dialium corbisieri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998. IUCN: e.T33185A9758430. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T33185A9758430.en. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  2. POWO: Dialium polyanthum Harms
  3. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva: African Flowering Plants Database.
  4. ^ Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2012. Dialium aubrevillei Pellegr. Fiche de PROTA4U. Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Louppe, D. & Oteng-Amoako, A.A. (Editeurs). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Pays Bas.
  5. ^ Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2021-04-26. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Dialium+corbisieri>
  6. Jean Gérard et al.: Tropix 7. CIRAD’s wood database, version 7.5.1 from May 2015
  7. Ulrich Maloueki, et al.: Activités antimicrobiennes et antioxydantes des extraits aqueux totaux des fruits de Dialium corbisieri et Dialium gossweilerii (Fabaceae-Caesalpinioideae), consommés par les bonobos. in: Int. J. Biol. Chem. Sci. 9(2): 633-642, April 2015.
Taxon identifiers
Dialium corbisieri
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