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Millettia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It consists of about 169 species of shrubs, lianas or trees, which are native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, Malesia, and New Guinea. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and seasonally-dry lowland and upland forest and forest margins, woodland, thicket, wooded grassland, and secondary vegetation.
Species are used locally as fuelwood, fish poisons, insecticides, medicine, ornamentals, and nitrogen fixers for soil rehabilitation in agroforestry. Several species are used for timber, including the African species wenge (M. laurentii De Wild.) and panga panga or mpande (M. stuhlmannii Taub.). The timber is used for flooring, furniture, cabinet work, construction, veneers, joinery, and agricultural implements.
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