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Isoberlinia doka

Isoberlinia doka
Photo: Marco Schmidt [1], CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
W. Trop. Africa to NW. Uganda
Climate
wet tropical

About

Isoberlinia doka is a hardwood tree native to African tropical savannas and Guinean forest-savanna mosaic dry forests where it can form single species stands. The tree is exploited for its economic value as a commercial timber. The leaves and shoots of the tree dominate the diet of the Giant Eland in its range. The tree is a host plant for Anaphe moloneyi (superfamily Thaumetopoeidae), one of the caterpillars that produces a wild silk, sayan, local to parts of Nigeria.

Other Isoberlinia plants

Isoberlinia scheffleri · Isoberlinia tomentosa · Isoberlinia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isoberlinia doka 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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