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Fabaceae

Sweet dattock

Detarium microcarpum Guill. & Perr.

Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Detarium

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Sweet dattock: Detarium microcarpum, SW Burkina Faso
Photo: Marco Schmidt, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (6)
Arabic
كهبل صغير الثمار
Bambara
Ntamajalan
English
Sweet dattock, Tallow tree
French
Petit Detar
Hausa
Taura
kcg
Kpangkok

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Sources: classification from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.