Millettia laurentii

De Wild. · species

image placeholder — illustration coming later

Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Millettia

At a glance

Occurrence records272

Data sources7

Biological traits13

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Millettia laurentii's data was compiled from.

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility272 records↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources13 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS14 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF272 records

DNA & barcodingNCBIsequences

01Narrative

Millettia laurentii, le Faux Ébénier, le Palissandre d'Afrique, wenge ou l’Awong, est une espèce de plantes à fleurs de la famille des Fabaceae. C'est un arbre à bois sombre des régions tropicales et équatoriales d’Afrique, très foncé et dense. En raison de la destruction de son habitat naturel et de sa surexploitation par l'être humain, Millettia laurentii est classé depuis 1998 comme "Espèce en danger" par l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature. Son bois très durable est utilisé dans la production de tabletterie, brosserie, parquet, sculpture et ébénisterie fine, ainsi qu'en lutherie.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPGIFTTRY

Size & morphology1

Plant height25 m

⚠ sources differ — GIFT: 25 m · TRY: 20 m

Life cycle & reproduction5

Deciduousnessevergreen

Life formtree

Life spanperennial

Pollination modebiotic

Pollination syndromeinsect

Habitat & environment4

Climatewet tropical

Climberself-supporting

Growth formtree

Woodinesswoody

Physiology & chemistry3

Nitrogen fixingnitrogen_fixer

Photosynthetic pathwayC3

Wood density761 mg/cm³

03Chemical composition14 compounds

Compounds documented for Millettia laurentii across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile5 classes

Isoflavones2

Chalcones2

Flavonols1

Flavones1

Aminoacids1

Documented compounds14 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(8R)-2-amino-8-hydroxy-4,6,6-trimethyl-8,9-dihydro-7H-indeno[1,2-d]pyrimidin-5-one	present	LOTUS
(8R)-2-amino-8-methoxy-6,6-dimethyl-8,9-dihydro-7H-indeno[1,2-d]pyrimidin-5-one	present	LOTUS
(9R)-2-amino-9-hydroxy-4,7,7-trimethyl-9,10-dihydro-8H-chromeno[4,3-d]pyrimidin-5-one	present	LOTUS
1-(1,3-Benzodioxol-5-yl)-3-(2,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-1,3-propanedione	present	LOTUS
2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-1-benzopyran-3,5,7-triol	present	LOTUS
2-[(3R)-7-hydroxy-8-methoxy-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-yl]-3,5-dimethoxycyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione	present	LOTUS
2-[(3S)-7-hydroxy-8-methoxy-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-yl]-3,5-dimethoxycyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione	present	LOTUS
2-amino-8-hydroxy-4,6,6-trimethyl-8,9-dihydro-7H-indeno[1,2-d]pyrimidin-5-one	present	LOTUS
Calycosin	present	LOTUS
Gliricidin	present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding1 sequences

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Millettia laurentii has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

Marker genes1

GenBank sequences1

The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species

rbcLMZ274110.1 ↗154 202 bp

ACGT

ATTATATGATTATATTGTGTTGTGCTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCATTTAGATTTTTTGGGGGGGGGCGAACGACGGGAATTGAACCCGCGCATG …

Millettia laurentii voucher BR<BEL>:Angoboy s.n. chloroplast, complete genome

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★rbcL1

plant barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type272 records

Wild obs. + sensor55

Museum / vouchered217

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO416 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 8

8 georeferenced · 47 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor55

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 1>10 km 1

2 georeferenced · 215 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence217

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions4 of 14 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
LBVlocation not on record	45
BRLUlocation not on record	36
MeiseBGlocation not on record	34
Saint Louis, US	20
University of Santo Tomas Museumlocation not on record	13
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record	9
Yaoundé, CM	6
South Kensington, GB	6
Herbier National du Gabonlocation not on record	5
Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collectionlocation not on record	3
Kew, GB	3
WAGlocation not on record	3
Plocation not on record	2
IPHAMETRAlocation not on record	2

14 institutions · 187 of 217 vouchered records shown · 30 without an institution code

←→tabs

The Life Data · species page · narrative wired to read_model image placeholder · 3D tilt requires an http server (WebGL)