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Picralima nitida

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Name

Identification
Picralima nitida (Stapf) Th.&H.Dur. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Tabernaemontana nitida
  • `
  • `klaineana
  • Picralima nitida
  • Picralima klaineana
  • Tabernaemontana macrocarpa
Common name
  • òsú abwa (NWT; JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO (Ogwashi)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kakooli (CJT) (GHANA, NZEMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • dangné (Laffitte) (DAHOMEY, GBE-FON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ekuama (DF) (GHANA, VULGAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • aboya (B&D) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • abere (IFE) agègè = run-run (Verger) agègè-arin (JRA; FRI) erin (KO&S) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kpεtε-kpεtεt∫o (FRI) (GHANA, ADANGME), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • kahana (?kakana) (CJT) (GHANA, ANYI-SEHWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akuama (auctt.) σnwẽma (FRI) owema (Enti) (GHANA, FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • k-baba pempé (K&B) (IVORY COAST, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akuama, ekuama akuama (Enti) atiridii = fever (FRI) o-kanwen, ka: to taste; nwen: bitter (auctt.) o-nwẽma not commonly used (FRI) (GHANA, TWI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • krigbé (B&D) (IVORY COAST, KRU-GUERE (Chiehn)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akuama refers mainly to the seed (Enti) akuama, εkuama (FRI, Enti) kanwini, ka: to taste; nwin: bitter (FRI) nwẽma (FRI) (GHANA, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • òsú igwe (auctt.) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • balunyi (NWT) ninge-εxunye (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akuama (Enti) owema (Enti) σwẽnma (FRI) (GHANA, KWAWU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • akuama, ekuama (Enti) akuama (Enti) akuamma (CJT) kanwene (FRI) panwe not commonly used (FRI) (GHANA, WASA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ebissi (B&D) (IVORY COAST, ABURE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for PICRALIMA nitida (Stapf) Th. & H. Durand [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2002) Author: E.A. OMINO
Names
PICRALIMA nitida (Stapf) Th. & H. Durand [family APOCYNACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 2: 338 (1910); I.T.U. ed. 2: 28 (1952); Huber in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 62 (1963); Omino in Wageningen Agric. Univ. Pap. 96 (1): 128, t. 35 (1996). Type: Cameroon, Ambas Bay, Mann 710 (K!, holo., GH, P!, iso.)
Tabernaemontana nitida Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in K.B. 1894: 22 (1894)
Information
Tree or shrub 4–35 m high, crown dense; trunk 5–60 cm in diameter, cylindrical; wood very hard. Leaves petiolate; blade broadly to narrowly ellipic to oblong, 10–27 cm long, 1.9–13 cm wide, apex abruptly acuminate with acumen 6–14 mm long, rounded to obtuse at the base; petiole 10–22 mm long. Inflorescence 6–10 cm long, 12–36-flowered; peduncle 2–37 mm long; bracts small; pedicels 2–20 mm long. Flowers with sepals broadly ovate to suborbicular; 3.5–7.5 mm long, 3.5–5 mm wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex; corolla tube often greenish, 14.5–21 mm long; lobes white to yellow, ovate, 13.5–30 mm long, 5.5–10 mm wide, obtuse at the apex; stamens inserted at 9.5–15 mm from the base; pistil 9.7–12.5 mm long; style 5–7.3 mm long; ovules 120–150 in each carpel. Fruits yellow to orange, smooth, irregularly pyriform or obovoid to ellipsoid, 8–15 cm long, 13–14 cm in diameter, apex rounded. Fig. 11 (p. 35).
Range
DISTR. U 2
Altitude range
800–1200 m
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Semliki Valley, 28 Nov. 1905, Dawe 719!;UGANDA Bunyoro District Bugoma, 28 Nov, 1905, Dawe 707! & Budongo Forest, Aug. 1940, Eggeling 4042!
Distribution (external)
; Ivory Coast
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
Gabon
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Notes
USES. Bark chewed as a vermifuge

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