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Nomenclature. Family: FABACEAE-FABOIDEAE. Further trade and local names: goni (BF,ML); guenin (BF); ven (GN, SN, ML); pau sangue (GQ, GW, PT); palissandre du Sénégal, kino de Gambie, santal rouge d'Afrique, hérissé (FR); African kino, African rosewood, African barwood, madobia, kino of Gambia, santal of Africa, Senegal rosewood (GB); afrikanischer Palisander, afrikanisches Rosenholz (DE). Code according to DIN EN 13556: none.
CITES(EU) status of protection. Listed in Annex II(B).
Similar timbers. The structural features of Pterocarpus erinaceus (Vène) are largely identical with those of other Pterocarpus species and also with some of the genus Dalbergia; the wood, however, can be distinguished from those with a similar structure due to the light base color of the heartwood with regular brown color streaks.
Geographic distribution. Tropical Africa (dry forest and savannahs). Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
Growth rings, colour, grain, etc. Growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent. Heartwood basically brown, yellow; with streaks (purplish-brown). Sapwood distinct from heartwood colour. Odour indistinct or absent. Wood heavy and hard (0,85–0,90–0,95). Interlocked grain present, or absent (straight to weakly interlocked).
Hardwood vs softwood. Vessels (pores) present (= hardwood).
Vessels (pores). Wood semi-ring-porous, or diffuse-porous; earlywood pore ring multiseriate. Vessels (pores) in multiples; commonly in short (2–3 vessels) radial rows. Vessels large ((70-)160–170(-310)); very few ((1-)3–4(-6)). Tyloses absent. Other deposits in heartwood vessels (pores) present.
Axial parenchyma. Axial parenchyma present; banded and not banded. Parenchyma bands not (only) marginal; narrow to wide; much wider than rays. Other macroscopically visible types of axial parenchyma: aliform lozenge type, aliform winged, confluent.
Rays. Rays narrow. Large rays commonly less than 1 mm high.
Storied structure. Storied structure present. Tiers regular (horizontal or slightly inclined), or irregular; 4–6 per axial millimetre.
Physical and chemical tests. Heartwood not fluorescent. Water extract fluorescent (light bluish green); colour shade of water extract colourless to brown. Heartwood extractives not leachable by water. Ethanol extract fluorescent (blue, violet, bright pink, depending on specimen origin); colour shade of ethanol extract colourless to brown, or red (almost colorless to reddish brown, depending on specimen origin). Splinter burns to full ash; colour of ash white to grey.
Additional information. • Transverse section + wood surface. Transverse section ca. 10x. wood surface, natural size. tangential. radial.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Richter, H.G., Gembruch, K., and Koch, G. 2014 onwards. CITESwoodID: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. In English, French, German, and Spanish. Version: 4th April 2023. www.delta-intkey.com’.
