Taxon: Heritiera utilis (Sprague) Sprague

 
Genus: Heritiera
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Sterculioideae
Nomen number: 401535
Place of publication: Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1909:348. 1909
Link to protologue:
Typification:
Name Verified on: 22-Mar-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 05-Aug-2002
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

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Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Materials: wood (source of "niangon" timber)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Africa
    • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Gabon
    • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone


References:

  1. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). (PROTA4U)
  2. Adam, J.-G. Flore descriptive des monts Nimba. (F MtNimba)
  3. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
  4. Boutelje, J. B. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. 1980 (Ency WTimber)
  5. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  6. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997 (Pl Book)
  7. Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers (Pl Res SEAs) 5(1):230.

Check other web resources for Heritiera utilis (Sprague) Sprague :

  • 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. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=401535. Accessed 22 June 2018.