Taxon: Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R. Br. ex G. Don

Common names:

• African locust-bean   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – English
  
• West African locust-bean   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – English
  
• arbre à farine   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – French
  
• mimosa pourpre   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – French
  
• néré   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – French
  
• farroba   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – Portuguese
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry; ornamental   (fide Use Pl Ghana; Quedraogo, 1995)
  
• Human food: fruit; potential as oil/fat   (fide Use Pl Ghana; Bot J. Linn Soc 87:163. 1983)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad [s.]; Sudan [s.]
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali [s.]; Niger [s.]; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Abbiw, D. K. 1990. Useful plants of Ghana. (Use Pl Ghana)
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal. (F Senegal)
• Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali. (L Mali)
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Hagos, T. H. 1962. Acta Bot. Neerl. 11:252.
• Hopkins, H. 1983. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 87:141.
• Lebrun, J.-P. et al. 1972. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Tchad meridional. (L SChad)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Quedraogo, A. S. 1995. Parkia biglobosa (Leguminosae) in West Africa; biosystematics and improvement. viii + 205 pp. [publ. by Agric. Univ. Wageningen].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Parkia biglobosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Parkia biglobosa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Inga biglobosa (Jacq.) Willd.
  
• (≡) Mimosa biglobosa Jacq. (basionym)
  
• (=) Parkia africana R. Br.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Parkia clappertoniana Keay
  

Check other databases for Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R. Br. ex G. Don:

• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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