Taxon: Heritiera utilis (Sprague) Sprague

 
Genus: Heritiera
Family: Malvaceae
  Subfamily: Sterculioideae
Nomen number: 401535
Place of publication: Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1909:348. 1909
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

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Materials: wood (source of "niangon" timber fide Pl Res SEAs 5(1):230. 1993)

Distributional Range:

    Native:

  • Africa

    • West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Liberia; Sierra Leone
    • West-Central Tropical Africa: Gabon

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). (PROTA4U)
  • Adam, J.-G. Flore descriptive des monts Nimba. 1971- (F MtNimba)
  • Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
  • Boutelje, J. B. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. 1980 (Ency WTimber)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972 (F WT Afr)
  • Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997 (Pl Book)
  • Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers (Pl Res SEAs) 5(1):230.

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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.