Baikiaea insignis

Baikiaea insignis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Genus:	Baikiaea
Species:	B. insignis
Binomial name
Baikiaea insignis Bentham

Baikiaea insignis is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.

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 , 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.

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  Illustration from book "Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien. Vol. III, 3." (1891) by Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert (1862-1897).

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