Brachystegia
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Brachystegia is a genus of tree of the subfamily Detarioideae that is native to tropical Africa.
Trees of the genus are commonly known as miombo, and are dominant in the miombo woodlands of central and southern tropical Africa. The Zambezian region is the centre of diversity for the genus.<ref>Emmanuel N. Chidumayo and Davison J. Gumbo, eds. (2010). The dry forests and woodlands of Africa: managing for products and services. Earthscan, 2010.</ref>
Description
Hybridisation between the species occurs and taxa show considerable variation in leaflet size, shape and number, making identification difficult.
New leaves show a great range of red colours when immature, later turning to various shades of green.
Range and habitat
Template:See also Brachystegia species range from coastal West Africa through Nigeria and Central Africa to the Northern Province of South Africa.
Habitats include seasonally dry forest, woodland, wooded grassland and bushland, and lowland tropical rain forest, often along rivers, the margins of wetlands, and on upland plateaus. Some species form monodominant stands.<ref name = powo/>
18 species are native to Zambezian woodland. Six grow in Guineo–Congolian forest, with six in west-central Africa and 1 in West Africa. One species grows in the Zanzibar–Inhambane coastal forests of eastern Mozambique.<ref name = powo/>
Species
32 species are currently accepted:<ref name = powo/> Template:Div col
- Brachystegia allenii Template:Small – Tanzania, DR Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
- Brachystegia angustistipulata Template:Small – Tanzania and southern DR Congo
- Brachystegia appendiculata Template:Small – Malawi
- Brachystegia astlei Template:Small – Zambia
- Brachystegia bakeriana Template:Small – southeastern Angola and Zambia
- Brachystegia bequaertii Template:Small – southern DR Congo
- Brachystegia boehmii Template:Small – Tanzania and DR Congo to Angola, Botswana, and Mozambique
- Brachystegia bournei Template:Small – Zambia
- Brachystegia bussei Template:Small – DR Congo and Tanzania to Zimbabwe and Mozambique
- Brachystegia cynometroides Template:Small – Cameroon and southwestern Central African Republic
- Brachystegia eurycoma Template:Small Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon
- Brachystegia floribunda Template:Small – Tanzania and DR Congo to Angola, Zambia, and Mozambique
- Brachystegia glaberrima Template:Small – Tanzania, DR Congo, and Zambia
- Brachystegia gossweileri Template:Small – DR Congo, Angola, and Zambia
- Brachystegia kennedyi Template:Small – southern Nigeria and Cameroon
- Brachystegia laurentii Template:Small – Cameroon, Gabon, and DR Congo
- Brachystegia leonensis Template:Small – Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire
- Brachystegia letestui Template:Small – southern DR Congo
- Brachystegia longifolia Template:Small – Tanzania and DR Congo to Angola, Zambia, and Mozambique
- Brachystegia lujae Template:Small – DR Congo
- Brachystegia manga Template:Small – Tanzania and DR Congo to Angola, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
- Brachystegia michelmorei Template:Small – Zambia
- Brachystegia mildbraedii Template:Small – Cameroon and Gabon
- Brachystegia nigerica Template:Small – Nigeria
- Brachystegia oblonga Template:Small – northeastern Mozambique
- Brachystegia puberula Template:Small – Tanzania, DR Congo, Zambia, and Angola
- Brachystegia russelliae Template:Small southern DR Congo, Angola, and Zambia
- Brachystegia spiciformis Template:Small – southeastern Kenya and DR Congo to Angola and Northern Province of South Africa
- Brachystegia stipulata Template:Small – Tanzania and DR Congo to Zambia and Mozambique
- Brachystegia tamarindoides Template:Small – Tanzania and DR Congo to Angola, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
- Brachystegia taxifolia Template:Small Tanzania, DR Congo, Malawi, and Zambia
- Brachystegia utilis Template:Small – Tanzania and DR Congo to Angola, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
- Brachystegia × weltwitschii Template:Small – Angola