| Dialium excelsum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Dialium |
| Species: | D. excelsum |
| Binomial name | |
| Dialium excelsum Stey. | |
Dialium excelsum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. It is threatened by mining and forest clearing. [1]
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Entandrophragma is a genus of twelve known species of deciduous trees in the family Meliaceae.
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Dialium orientale is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae.It is found in Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. The fruit of this tree is a popular snack in Kenya and known as pepeta. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Entandrophragma excelsum, is Africa's tallest indigenous tree native to tropical East Africa and occurs in eastern D.R.of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. This species is scattered in areas of upland semi-deciduous forest, in mid-altitude and montane rainforest, at 1280 – 2150 altitude. It is locally also found in riverine forest.
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Peter James de Lange is a New Zealand botanist. Schooled in Hamilton, he graduated from the University of Waikato as B.Sc. in biological and earth sciences then as M.Sc. in paleoecology and tephrochronostratigraphy. He has a PhD from the University of Auckland, the subject of his thesis, the biosystematics of Kunzea ericoides. From 1990 to 2017 he worked as a threatened plant scientist in the Ecosystems and Species Unit of Research and Development in the New Zealand Department of Conservation. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sassari, Sardinia and now employed as an Associate Professor in the School of Environmental & Animal Sciences, Unitec Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, recipient of the New Zealand Botanical Society Allan Mere award (2006) and also the Loder Cup (2017) for his botanical work. One plant, the Three Kings Islands endemic kawakawa (pepper) described as Macropiper excelsum subsp peltatum f. delangei and now placed in Piper, as P. excelsum subsp. delangei is named in his honour. He is the author of 30 books and 180 scientific papers.
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