Baikiaea insignis is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Baikiaea |
| Species: | B. insignis
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| Binomial name | |
| Baikiaea insignis Bentham
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Baikiaea insignis ranges through the Guineo-Congolian region into eastern Africa, from Senegal through Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania.[1]
Baikiaea insignis is found in a range of plant communities, from sea level up to 1,800 metres elevation. It is found in rainforests, periodically flooded riparian forests with Uapaca heudelotii and Irvingia smithii, gallery forests, upland and mountain forests, and swamp forests.[2]
Baikiaea insignis subsp. minor, commonly known as Nkobakoba or Nkoba, is a subspecies found in Bukoba district of Tanzania and the South Buddu forests of Uganda.[3] B. insignis minor and Afrocarpus dawei are the dominant canopy trees in Minziro and Sango Bay forests, a distinctive swamp forest community found along the lower reaches of the Kagera River west of Lake Victoria, on the border of Tanzania and Uganda.[4]
Gallery
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Lithograph of B. insignis by J.N. Fitch in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, London., vol. 145 of 1919. -
Illustration from book "Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien. Vol. III, 3." (1891) by Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert (1862-1897).
References
edit- ^ "Baikiaea insignis." Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2020-03-17. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Baikiaea+insignis>
- ^ "Baikiaea insignis." Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2020-03-17. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Baikiaea+insignis>
- ^ Chudnoff, Martin. "Baikiaea insignis subsp. minor (Family: Leguminosae) Nkobakoba" (PDF). Technology Transfer Factsheets - Centre for Wood Anatomy Research. USDA Forest Service. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ^ Kamukala, G. L., and S. A. Crafter, eds. (1993). Wetlands of Tanzania: Proceedings of a Seminar on the Wetlands of Tanzania, Morogoro, Tanzania, 27–29 November 1991. Volume 10 of The IUCN Wetlands Programme. IUCN, 1993.
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