Baikiaea plurijuga
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Details Top
| Internal ID | UUID643fded9b8327923516410 |
| Scientific name | Baikiaea plurijuga |
| Authority | Harms |
| First published in | O.Warburg (ed.), Kunene-Sambesi Exped.: 248 (1903) |
Description Top
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Baikiaea plurijuga, commonly known as African teak, Mukusi, Rhodesian teak, Zambian teak or Zambesi redwood, is a species of Afrotropical tree from the legume family, the Fabaceae from southern Africa. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree with pinnate leaves each with 4-5 pairs of opposed leaflets, and pink to deep mauve flowers with yellow stamens clustered in large axillary racemes. The fruit are flattened, woody pods with a hooked tip which splits explosively sending the seeds out over some distance. It is confined to the Kalahari sands and the woodland which it dominates is known as Gusu woodland. It occurs in southern Angola, northern Botswana, northern Namibia, southern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe. The wood of Baikiaea plurijuga is valued for its termite resistance and resistance to rot, and is used for railway sleepers, in construction and for furniture making. It is classified as Near Threatened due to over-exploitation by the commercial timber industry, but it is legally protected in Namibia.
Common names Top
Add a new one! Suggest a correction!| Language | Common/alternative name |
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| English | rhodesian-teak |
| English | zambesi redwood |
| Afrikaans | zambezi-kiaat |
| Afrikaans | zambezikiaat |
| Catalan | teca africana |
| Catalan | mukusi |
| Catalan | sequoia de zambezi |
| Catalan | teca rhodesiana |
| Catalan | teca zambiana |
| Esperanto | zambia bajkiajo |
| Japanese | ザンビア・チーク |
| Japanese | ローデシアンチーク |
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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top
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South Tropical Africa
- Angola
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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Southern Africa
- Botswana
- Caprivi Strip
- Namibia
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South Tropical Africa
Links to other databases Top
Suggest others/fix!| Database | ID/link to page |
|---|---|
| World Flora Online | wfo-0000212823 |
| Tropicos | 13049770 |
| KEW | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:480802-1 |
| The Plant List | ild-790 |
| PFAF | Baikiaea plurijuga |
| Open Tree Of Life | 587578 |
| NCBI Taxonomy | 327896 |
| IUCN Red List | 33188 |
| IPNI | 480802-1 |
| iNaturalist | 189622 |
| GBIF | 2943830 |
| Freebase | /m/02vsxm1 |
| EOL | 702672 |
| USDA GRIN | 6314 |
| Wikipedia | Baikiaea_plurijuga |
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| In private collections | 0 |
| In public collections | 0 |