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Xeroderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Mendonça & EP Sousa [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 3
Names
Ostryoderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Xeroderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Mendonça & EP Sousa [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Common names
SENEGAL: BANYUN bãgo kabu (JB; K&A) BASARI a-médé (K&A) a-nèd (JB) BEDIK a-nédé (JB; K&A) gi-nédi (FG&G) DIOLA bãngokob (JB; K&A) FULA-PULAAR (Senegal) bãndanéyi (JB) bani dan (JB) banidanewi (K&A) banidanèy = white ‘bani’ (JB; K&A) dané da
Uses
(bark, root) Medicines: generally healing (bark, root) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (bark) Medicines: eye treatments (bark) Medicines: naso-pharyngeal affections (bark, leaf) Medicines: pulmonary troubles (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (bark) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (bark) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (root) Medicines: vermifuges (root) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (root) Medicines: venereal diseases (leaf) Medicines: fabrifuges (root) Medicines: dropsy, swellings, oedema, gout (seed) Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent (timber) Products: building materials (bark) Products: fibre (bark) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (timber) Products: carpentry and related applications (wood) Products: household, domestic and personal items
Description
A small to medium-sized deciduous tree, 5–16 m high, straight bole to 55 cm diameter, low-branching becoming an open untidy crown, of dry savanna woodland, scattered, dense in places from Senegal to N Nigeria, and extending across Africa to Kenya and Zimb
References
References:1. Ainslie, 1937: sp. no. 255, as Ostryoderris chevalieri. 2. Angus 1092, K. 3. Aubréville, 1950: 317, as Ostryoderris chevalieri Dunn. 4. Bally, 1937, as Ostryoderris stuhlmannii Dunn. 5. Berhaut, 1976: 444–6, as Ostryoderris stuhlmannii (Taub
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Xeroderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Mendonça & EP Sousa [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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