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Baikiaea ''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 ...
'' woodlands is an ecoregion in
Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
. It includes dry deciduous forest and woodland, thicket, and grassland, dominated by the tree ''
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 medium- ...
''. The ecoregion has a semi-arid climate, and is a transition between more humid
miombo woodlands The Miombo woodland is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome (in the World Wide Fund for Nature scheme) located primarily in Central Africa. It includes four woodland savanna ecoregions (listed below) characterized b ...
to the north, and the drier
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 ...
to the south.Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D'Amico Hales, Emma Underwood, et al. (2004). ''Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment''. World Wildlife Fund. Island Press, 2004.


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Afrotropical ecoregions Ecoregions of Angola Ecoregions of Botswana Ecoregions of Namibia Ecoregions of Zambia Ecoregions of Zimbabwe Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Zambezian region {{ecoregion-stub