''Baikiaea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family,

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

. It includes six species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa. Species range from Nigeria eastwards to Uganda and Tanzania and south to Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. Habitats range from lowland tropical rain forest to seasonally dry forest and woodland or savannas on well-drained soils. Six species are accepted: *''

Baikiaea ghesquiereana ''Baikiaea ghesquiereana'' is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss or habitat reduction) occurs when a natur ...

'' – eastern lowland Tanzania *'' Baikiaea insignis'' – Nigeria through Central Africa to Uganda, Tanzania, and Angola *''

Baikiaea plurijuga ''Baikiaea plurijuga'', known as African teak, Mukusi, Rhodesian teak, Zambian teak, or Zambesi redwood, is a species of Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, t ...

'' – Rhodesian-teak – On Kalahari sands in the Zambezi Basin of Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe *'' Baikiaea robynsii'' Ghesq. ex Laing mainland Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo *'' Baikiaea suzannae'' Ghesq. – Democratic Republic of the Congo *'' Baikiaea zenkeri'' – Cameroon ''Baikiaea plurijuga'' is the characteristic tree of two dry woodland ecoregions of southern Africa, the

Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering including much of Botswana as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coastal de ...

and

Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands The Zambezian '' Baikiaea'' woodlands is an ecoregion in Africa. It includes dry deciduous forest and woodland, thicket, and grassland, dominated by the tree '' Baikiaea plurijuga''. The ecoregion has a semi-arid climate, and is a transition betwe ...

, where it can grow in near-monodominant stands.Burgess, N., Hales, J. D., Underwood, E. ''Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment''. Island Press, Washington DC. 2004. The genus is named after

William Balfour Baikie William Balfour Baikie (27 August 182512 December 1864) was a Scottish explorer, naturalist and philologist. Biography Baikie was born at Kirkwall, Orkney, eldest son of Captain John Baikie, R.N. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and, on obta ...

(1824-1864), Scottish explorer of the

Niger River The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through Mali, Nige ...

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