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Bobgunnia fistuloides

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
W. & WC. Trop. Africa
Climate
wet tropical

About

Bobgunnia fistuloides, synonym Swartzia fistuloides, is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. It is native to west and west-central tropical Africa. Sometimes sold as "Pau Rosa", along with Bobgunnia madagascariensis.

Where it grows

Bobgunnia fistuloides is native to west tropical Africa (Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Nigeria) and to west-central tropical Africa (Cabinda Province, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bobgunnia fistuloides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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