Dalbergia melanoxylon

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:

Dalbergia melanoxylon

Species Authority:

Guill. & Perr.

Common Name/s:

English

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African Blackwood, Mozambique Ebony

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Lower Risk/near threatened ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Not Threatened (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Found in at least 26 sub-Saharan countries.
Countries:	Native: Angola (Angola); Botswana; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Mali; Mozambique; Namibia (Caprivi Strip); Nigeria; Senegal; South Africa (Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga); Sudan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
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Population [top]

Population:	As a species there is no imminent threat of extinction.

Population:

As a species there is no imminent threat of extinction.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This species occurs in a range of woodland habitats.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its timber, mpingo, is widely used in the wood carving industry and in musical instrument manufacture. Levels of exploitation are very high and larger or suitably exploitable individuals are becoming increasingly scarce. There is cause for concern over genetic erosion in many populations.

Major Threat(s):

Its timber, mpingo, is widely used in the wood carving industry and in musical instrument manufacture. Levels of exploitation are very high and larger or suitably exploitable individuals are becoming increasingly scarce. There is cause for concern over genetic erosion in many populations.

Bibliography [top]

	Beentje, H.J. 1994. Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. Berhaut, J. 1971. Flore Illustrée du Sénégal. Ministère du Développement Rural, Gouvernement du Sénégal. Chudnoff, M. 1984. Tropical Timbers of the World. Forest Products Laboratory Madison, United States Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin. Gelderblom, C. 1994. Letter to Dr Kerry Walter concerning lists of threatened plants in Southern Africa dated 7 March 1994. Global Tree Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler) 1998. Assessment of Southern African Trees for WCMC. Katende, A.B. 1995. Annotations to: WCMC printout of Trees of Uganda dated 23 Nov. 1995. Lock, J.M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. Royal Botanic Gardens, International Legume Database and Information Service, Kew. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Timberlake, J.R. 1995. Annotations to WCMC printout entitled, Conservation status listing for Zimbabwe.

Beentje, H.J. 1994. Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.

Berhaut, J. 1971. Flore Illustrée du Sénégal. Ministère du Développement Rural, Gouvernement du Sénégal.

Chudnoff, M. 1984. Tropical Timbers of the World. Forest Products Laboratory Madison, United States Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin.

Gelderblom, C. 1994. Letter to Dr Kerry Walter concerning lists of threatened plants in Southern Africa dated 7 March 1994.

Global Tree Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler) 1998. Assessment of Southern African Trees for WCMC.

Katende, A.B. 1995. Annotations to: WCMC printout of Trees of Uganda dated 23 Nov. 1995.

Lock, J.M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. Royal Botanic Gardens, International Legume Database and Information Service, Kew.

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Timberlake, J.R. 1995. Annotations to WCMC printout entitled, Conservation status listing for Zimbabwe.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Dalbergia melanoxylon. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 May 2013.
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