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*African blackwood, African ebony, African grenadillo, African ironwood, Senegal ebony, zebra wood (En). *Grenadille d’Afrique, ébénier du Sénégal (Fr). *Grenadilha, pau preto (Po). *Mpingo, kikwaju (Sw).

*Deciduous spiny shrub or small tree up to 12(–20) m tall, often several-stemmed and much-branched; bole usually short, branchless for up to 2(–3.5) m, often gnarled and fluted, up to 50(–100) cm in diameter; bark surface whitish to pale grey or greyish brown, thin, smooth but becoming rough and fissured or flaking, inner bark orange-pink; crown irregular, open; young branches clustered at the nodes, some growing out and others remaining short and spine-tipped, initially short-hairy but soon glabrescent, whitish grey. *Leaves arranged spirally, imparipinnately compound with 7–13(–17) leaflets; stipules 2–6 mm long, caducous; petiole and rachis almost glabrous; petiolules 1–2 mm long; leaflets alternate to opposite, obovate to elliptical, 1–5(–5.5) cm × (0.5–)1–3(–5) cm, leathery, short-hairy below but glabrescent. *Inflorescence a terminal or axillary panicle 2–12 cm long, laxly branched, short-hairy to almost glabrous, many-flowered. *Flowers bisexual, papilionaceous, 4–6 mm long, almost sessile; calyx campanulate, 2–3(–4) mm long, lobes shorter than tube, lower lobe longest, upper lobes fused; corolla whitish, with obovate standard and clawed wings and keel; stamens usually 9, fused into a tube, but free in upper part; ovary superior, with distinct stipe at base, style short. *Fruit a flat, elliptical to oblong, papery pod 3–7 cm × 1–1.5(–2) cm, with stipe 3–7 mm long, glabrous, greyish brown, laxly veined, indehiscent, 1–2(–4)-seeded. *Seeds kidney-shaped.

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* R.H.M.J. Lemmens , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2008. '''Dalbergia melanoxylon''' Guill. & Perr. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.