can be easily seasoned. It is difficult to work, but it takes a fine polish. It is used for high quality furniture, plywoods, bridge piles, sporting goods, and railway sleepers. It is a very good material for decorative work and carvings. Its density is 770 kg/m3. African blackwood (D. melanoxylon) is an intensely black wood in demand for making woodwind musical instruments. Dalbergia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix mendax which feeds exclusively on Dalbergia sissoo. The Dalbergia species are notorious for causing allergic reactions due to the presence of sensitizing quinones in the wood. Conservation All Dalbergia species are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). All but Dalbergia nigra are listed in Appendix II, with D.nigra listed in Appendix I. Species Dalbergia comprises the following species: Dalbergia abbreviata Craib Dalbergia abrahamii Bosser & R. Rabev. Dalbergia acariiantha Harms Dalbergia acuta Benth. Dalbergia acutifoliolata Mendonca & Sousa Dalbergia adami Berhaut Dalbergia afzeliana G. Don Dalbergia ajudana Harms Dalbergia albertisii Prain Dalbergia albiflora Hutch. & Dalziel subsp. albiflora Hutch. & Dalziel subsp. echinocarpa Hepper Dalbergia altissima Baker f. Dalbergia altissima Pittier Dalbergia amazonica (Radlk.) Ducke Dalbergia andapensis Bosser & R. Rabev. Dalbergia antsirananae Phillipson, Crameri & N.Wilding Dalbergia arbutifolia Baker Dalbergia armata E. Mey. — Hluhluwe creeper Dalbergia assamica Benth. Dalbergia aurea Bosser & R. Rabev. Dalbergia bakeri Baker Dalbergia balansae Prain Dalbergia baronii Baker — Madagascar rosewood, Palisander rosewood, Palissandre voamboana Dalbergia bathiei R. Vig. Dalbergia beccarii Prain Dalbergia beddomei Thoth. Dalbergia benthamii Prain Dalbergia bignonae Berhaut Dalbergia bintuluensis Sunarno & Ohashi Dalbergia boehmii Taub. Dalbergia bojeri Drake Dalbergia boniana Gagnep. Dalbergia borneensis Prain Dalbergia brachystachya Bosser & R. Rabev. Dalbergia bracteolata Baker Dalbergia brasiliensis Vogel Dalbergia brownei (Jacq.) Urb. — Coin vine Dalbergia burmanica Prain Dalbergia calderonii Standl. subsp. calderonii Standl. subsp. molinae Rudd Dalbergia calycina Benth. Dalbergia campenonii Drake Dalbergia cana Kurz Dalbergia candenatensis (Dennst.) Prain Dalbergia canescens (Elmer) Merr. Dalbergia capuronii Bosser & R. Rabev. Dalbergia carringtoniana Sousa Dalbergia catingicola Harms Dalbergia caudata G. Don Dalbergia cearensis Ducke — Kingwood Dalbergia chapelieri Baill. Dalbergia chlorocarpa R. Vig. Dalbergia chontalensis Standl. & L.O. Williams Dalbergia clarkei Thoth. Dalbergia cochinchinensis Pierre ex Laness. — Siamese rosewood, Thailand rosewood, Tracwood (synonym Dalbergia cambodiana Pierre) Dalbergia commiphoroides Baker f. Dalbergia confertiflora Benth. Dalbergia congensis Baker f. Dalbergia congesta Wight & Arn. Dalbergia