Taxon: Pterocarpus soyauxii Taub.

Common names:

• African coralwood   (Source: Trop Leg ) – English
  
• African padauk   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  
• barwood   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – English
  
• Gabon padauk   (Source: Trop Leg ) – English
  
• muenge   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• redwood   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – English
  
• bois rouge   (Source: Use Pl WT Afr ) – French
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: potential as vegetable   (fide Trop Leg)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff; wood   (fide Trop Leg)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Nigeria
  South Tropical Africa: Angola

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
• Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds. 1937–. Conspectus florae angolensis. (F Angol)
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. (Trop Leg)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rojo, J. P. 1972. Pterocarpus (Leguminosae-Papilionaceae) revised for the world. Phanerog. Monogr. 5:88.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pterocarpus soyauxii.

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

Check other databases for Pterocarpus soyauxii Taub.:

• 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 nodulation data

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• 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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