Tervuren Xylarium Wood Database

Familia: Fabaceae

Subfamilia: Mimosoideae

Species name according to: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 30(3): 362. 1875.

Accepted standard name: this name is accepted

Synonyms

Dimorphandra megacarpa Rolfe;

Wood characteristics from external sites

http://tropix.cirad.fr/ame/faveira.pdf http://tropix.cirad.fr/america/faveira.pdf

Features and microscopic photographs from Inside Wood database

http://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/description?descid=2892 http://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/description?descid=2893

Local and/or commercial names

Name	Language	Country	Source
Arara-tucupi	portuguese	Brazil	http://www.cepen.com.br/arvore_nat_list.htm#A%20Lista
Benguê	portuguese	Brazil	http://www.cepen.com.br/arvore_nat_list.htm#A%20Lista
Faveira-benguê	portuguese		http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Faveira-pé-de-arara	portuguese	Brazil	http://www.cepen.com.br/arvore_nat_list.htm#A%20Lista

Specimens available at the Tervuren Xylarium

Tw34416

Tw34659 Tw37306