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Dialium excelsum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree native to central Africa, ranging from Cameroon through Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo to South Sudan and western Uganda. It grows in terre firme tropical lowland rainforest, including the Ituri Forest in the eastern DRC, from 450 to 1,050 metres elevation. It is threatened by mining and forest clearing.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dialium excelsum 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.
