Baikiaea insignis

Baikiaea insignis is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.

Baikiaea insignis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Baikiaea
Species:
B. insignis
Binomial name
Baikiaea insignis
Bentham

B. insignis ranges through the Guineo-Congolian region into eastern Africa, from Senegal through Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania.[1]

B. insignis is found in a range of plant communities, from sea level up to 1,800 metres elevation. It is found in rainforests, periodically-flooded riparian forests with Uapaca heudelotii and Irvingia smithii, gallery forests, upland and mountain forests, and swamp forests.[2]

Baikiaea insignis subsp. minor, commonly known as Nkobakoba or Nkoba, is a subspecies found in Bukoba district of Tanzania and the South Buddu forests of Uganda.[3] B. insignis minor and Afrocarpus dawei are the dominant canopy trees in Minziro and Sango Bay forests, a distinctive swamp forest community found along the lower reaches of the Kagera River west of Lake Victoria, on the border of Tanzania and Uganda.[4]

  • Lithograph of B. insignis by J.N. Fitch in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, London., vol. 145 of 1919.
  • Illustration from book "Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien. Vol. III, 3." (1891) by Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert (1862-1897).

References
  1. "Baikiaea insignis." Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2020-03-17. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Baikiaea+insignis>
  2. "Baikiaea insignis." Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2020-03-17. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Baikiaea+insignis>
  3. : Chudnoff, Martin. "Baikiaea insignis subsp. minor (Family: Leguminosae) Nkobakoba" (PDF). Technology Transfer Factsheets - Centre for Wood Anatomy Research. USDA Forest Service. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  4. Kamukala, G. L., and S. A. Crafter, eds. (1993). Wetlands of Tanzania: Proceedings of a Seminar on the Wetlands of Tanzania, Morogoro, Tanzania, 27–29 November 1991. Volume 10 of The IUCN Wetlands Programme. IUCN, 1993.


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