Fabaceae FAMILY

Eysenhardtia adenostylis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Eysenhardtia adenostylis can be a shrub growing 2 - 3 metres tall (occasionally reaching 6 metres) or a tree growing 5 - 11 metres tall and exceptionally reaching 25 metres. The bole can be up to 32cm in diameter[ 1456 Title Revisión del género Eysenhardtiaa (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae). Publication A postgraduate Thesis at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Author Ramiro Cruz Durán Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Year 2006 ISBN Description , 1457 Title Eysenhardtia (Leguminosae): Taxonomic revision and relationships Publication Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 4750. Iowa State University 1972 Author Lang J.M. Website http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/4750 Publisher Iowa State University Year 1972 ISBN Description ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeC. America - El Salvador, Guatemala to southern Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca)

HabitatPine forests, pine-oak forests, montane mesophilic forest and lowland tropical forest, usually on moist slopes or near creeks or drainageways; at elevations from 900 - 2,200 metres, occasionally as low as 200 metres or as high as 3,800 metres[ 1456 Title Revisión del género Eysenhardtiaa (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae). Publication A postgraduate Thesis at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Author Ramiro Cruz Durán Publisher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Year 2006 ISBN Description , 1457 Title Eysenhardtia (Leguminosae): Taxonomic revision and relationships Publication Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 4750. Iowa State University 1972 Author Lang J.M. Website http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/4750 Publisher Iowa State University Year 1972 ISBN Description ].