Largest extant specimen of Entandophragma excelsum at the slopes of Kilimanjaro measured at 81.5 m, being the tallest known tree in Africa, as photographed by researcher Andreas Hemp
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Rosids
Order:
Sapindales
Family:
Meliaceae
Genus:
Entandrophragma
Species:
E. excelsum
Binomial name
Entandrophragma excelsum
(Dawe & Sprague) Sprague
Synonyms[2]
Entandrophragma deiningeri Harms
Entandrophragma gillardini Ledoux
Entandrophragma speciosum Harms
Entandrophragma stolzii Harms
Pseudocedrela excelsa Dawe & Sprague
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-elevation and montane rainforest, at (925 –) 1280 – 2150 metres elevation. It is locally also found in riverine forest.[3]
^World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Entandrophragma excelsum". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998: e.T33909A9818317. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T33909A9818317.en.
Entandrophragmaexcelsum, is Africa's tallest indigenous tree native to tropical East Africa and occurs in eastern D.R.of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda...
National Forest, Oregon, United States. Western North America Entandrophragmaexcelsum 81.5 267 Flowering plant at Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Eastern Africa...
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Symphonia globulifera, Newtonia buchananii, Albizia gummifera and Entandrophragmaexcelsum. The forest contains areas of montane bog and bamboo stands. A...
Afromontane species of the East African mountains – the trees and shrubs Entandrophragmaexcelsum, Ficalhoa laurifolia, and Ocotea usambarensis; the birds Onychognathus...
help account for the diversity. Aningeria adolfi-friederici and Entandrophragmaexcelsum are predominant emergent trees. Strangler figs (Ficus spp.) are...
trees other than Cynometra alexandri occur, such as Khaya spp. and Entandrophragma spp. Patches of characteristic colonising species (e.g. Maesopsis spp...
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