Does Parkia occur in Ethiopia?

Abstract

The genus Parkia R. Br. is not recorded from Ethiopia by Cufodontis (1955). However, in his revision of the genus in Africa, Mr. T. Hagos (1962) twice records it from Ethiopia. At the beginning of his paper he recalls having seen, in his boyhood nearly 20 years previously in Eritrea, a tree which, so he states, was a species of Parkia; he also recollects the 'sourish taste' of its fruit, which he and his family ate