Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 3
Common names
English ordeal tree; sasswood tree. Trade sasswood; missanda (Sierra Leone, Savill & Fox; Nigeria, H-Hansen); tali (Liberia, Voorhoeve); potrodom (Ghana); alui (Ivory Coast); erun (Nigeria, H-Hansen). GUINEA: KONO kli (RS) SIERRA LEONE: KORANKO teli (S&F) tili (S&F) MENDE a-gogbε (def. -i) (auctt.) TEMNE ka-kσn (S&F; FCD) ka-kσntha (S&F; FCD) ka-lepo (S&F) LIBERIA: DAN gli (AGV; GK) gluu (AGV) KRU-BASA jru (C; C&R) GUERE (Krahn) giru, gr
Uses
(bark) Drink: alcoholic, stimulant (bark) Medicines: pain-killers (bark) Medicines: emetics (bark) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (bark) Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents (bark) Phytochemistry: fish-poisons (bark) Phytochemistry: ordeal-poisons (sawdust) Phytochemistry: uricant (bark) Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: bee/honey plants, insect plants (timber) Products: building materials (bark) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (trunk) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (wood) Products: fuel and lighting Social: religion, superstitions, magic
Description
A large tree (described as ‘ugly’, 18) up to 40 m tall, bole occasionally straight and cylindrical but usually crooked, angular and branched, to 1∙2 m diameter, buttressed in old age, bearing a dense dark green heavily branched crown, of the evergreen and
References
References:1. Anon, s.d.,a. 2. Aubréville, 1959: 1: 328. 3. idem, 1968: 340. 4. idem, 1970: 317–8. 5. Cole, 1968,a. 6. Cooper 386, K. 7. Dalziel, 1937: 194. 8. Deighton 2897, K. 9. Irvine, 1961: 307. 10. Keay & al., 1964: 76. 11. Kerharo Bouquet, 1950: 11
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