Khaya senegalensis(Desr.) A.Juss.

African MahoganyBenin MahoganyDry Zone MahoganySenegal MahoganySenegal mahogany

WFO wfo-0000356989 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Khaya senegalensis, photographed by ONG SOS Biodiversity
fig. a ONG SOS Biodiversity, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-10-18 / obs. 55094007
Khaya senegalensis, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 33470624
Khaya senegalensis, photographed by Sunday Berlioz KAKPO
fig. c Sunday Berlioz KAKPO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29284773
Khaya senegalensis, photographed by Sunday Berlioz KAKPO
fig. d Sunday Berlioz KAKPO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29284762
Khaya senegalensis, photographed by Sunday Berlioz KAKPO
fig. e Sunday Berlioz KAKPO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29284767
Khaya senegalensis, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. f Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 27341643
Khaya senegalensis, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. g Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 27341638
Khaya senegalensis, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. h Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 27341642

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Khaya senegalensis is native: Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Togo, Uganda BeninBurkinaCameroonCentral African RepublicChadGabonGambiaGuineaGuinea-BissauIvory CoastMaliMauritaniaNigerNigeriaSenegalSierra LeoneSudan-South SudanTogoUganda
Native distribution of Khaya senegalensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Benin BEN AFRICA
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Ivory Coast IVO
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Niger NGR
Nigeria NGA
Senegal SEN
Sierra Leone SIE
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 324 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.0 °C 18.9 °C 23.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 29.2 °C 36.4 °C 39.4 °C
Annual rainfall 582 mm 1,138 mm 2,453 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 0 mm 6 mm 493 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 324 research-grade observations of Khaya senegalensis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Swietenia senegalensis Desr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.