''Baikiaea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family,
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Species include:
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Baikiaea fragrantissima
''Baikiaea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.
Species include:
*'' Baikiaea fragrantissima''
*'' Baikiaea ghesquiereana''
*'' Baikiaea insignis''
*''Baikiaea plurijuga'' – Rhodesian-teak
*'' Baikiaea robynsii' ...
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Baikiaea ghesquiereana''
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Baikiaea insignis''
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Baikiaea plurijuga
''Baikiaea plurijuga'', known as African teak, Mukusi, Rhodesian teak, Zambian teak or Zambesi redwood, is a species of Afrotropical tree from the legume family, the Fabaceae from southern Africa.
Description
''Baikiaea plurijuga'' is a medi ...
'' – Rhodesian-teak
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Baikiaea robynsii
''Baikiaea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.
Species include:
*''Baikiaea fragrantissima''
*'' Baikiaea ghesquiereana''
*'' Baikiaea insignis''
*''Baikiaea plurijuga'' – Rhodesian-teak
*'' Baikiaea robynsii'' ...
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Ghesq. ex Laing
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Baikiaea suzannae
''Baikiaea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.
Species include:
*''Baikiaea fragrantissima''
*'' Baikiaea ghesquiereana''
*'' Baikiaea insignis''
*''Baikiaea plurijuga'' – Rhodesian-teak
*''Baikiaea robynsii'' ...
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Ghesq.
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Baikiaea zenkeri''
''Baikiaea'' is the characteristic tree of two dry woodland ecoregions of southern Africa, the
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for , covering much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa.
It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coastal de ...
and
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
The Zambezian ''Baikiaea'' woodlands is an ecoregion in Africa. It includes dry deciduous forest and woodland, thicket, and grassland, dominated by the tree ''Baikiaea plurijuga''. The ecoregion has a semi-arid climate, and is a transition between ...
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[Burgess, N., Hales, J. D., Underwood, E. ''Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment''. Island Press, Washington DC. 2004.]
The genus is named after
William Balfour Baikie
William Balfour Baikie (27 August 182512 December 1864) was a Scottish explorer, naturalist and philologist.
Biography
Baikie was born at Kirkwall, Orkney, eldest son of Captain John Baikie, R.N. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and, on obt ...
(1824-1864), Scottish explorer of the
Niger River
The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through ...
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References
Detarioideae
Fabaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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