Meliaceae FAMILY Vulnerable

Entandrophragma angolense

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Entandrophragma angolense is a slow-growing, deciduous, dioecious, large tree growing up to 50 metres tall with some specimens reaching 60 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The bole can be branchless for up to 30 metres, it is usually straight and cylindrical, up to 200 cm in diameter, often with blunt buttresses up to 6 metres high, often extending into surface roots[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local medicinal use, whilst the timber is regarded as being one of the finest woods in Africa. The tree is widely exploited from the wild and its timber is traded internationally[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. Because of the extent of exploitation of this species, it has been listed as 'Vulnerable' in the IUCN Red List (2009)[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Guinea and Sierra Leone, east to Sudan, south to Angola and Kenya.

HabitatMost commonly found in moist semi-deciduous forest, though it can also be found in evergreen forest. It occurs in lowland and mid-altitude rainforest, but sometimes also in gallery forest and thickets, at elevations up to 1,800 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].