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Strophanthus preussii Engl. & Pax [family APOCYNACEAE]
Date Updated: 30 April 2005
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 1
Names
Strophanthus preussii Engl. & Pax [family APOCYNACEAE]
Common names
LIBERIA: MANO gbo yiddi (JMD) konên (JGA) IVORY COAST: AKYE napiabaté (Ivanoff) KYAMA abepopo (K&B) GHANA: AKAN-ASANTE dietwa (FRI; JMD) mamfoham (FRI) manpohan (CV) TWI dietwa (FRI; JMD) o-mããtwa-nini (auctt.) NIGERIA: YORUBA iς̣a-kékéré = small (JMD) iς̣a-wẹ́wẹ́ = small (JMD)
Uses
young leaf Food: general sap Medicines: generally healing sap Medicines: venereal diseases sap Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents seed Phytochemistry: alkaloids stem Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus
Description
A robust creeper or climbing shrub to 4 m high, of deciduous and secondary forest and in scrub from Guinea to W Cameroons and Fernando Po, and extending to Angola across central Africa to Tanganyika.The stems are used in S Nigeria to make bows for hunting (5).The sap is healing and is used in Zaïre on wounds and sores, and is given to women in childbirth (6). The sap contains tannin. It is used by the Akye of Ivory Coast in treatment of urethral discharge (4). The young leaves are said to be cooked and eaten as a vegetable in Gabon (6). The reported use of the sap for coagulating Funtumia rubber in Ghana is perhaps in error for the sap of S. sarmentosus (3) — see there.The Mano of the Nimba mountains of Liberia add the seed to poison mixtures but it is less toxic than the seed of S. gratus (1). Its use in the Upper Niger (? Mali) has been recorded, but the Bambara of that area prefer the use of S. hispidus (2). The alkaloids present appear not yet to have been worked out. Sarmentogenin has not been found.
References
References:1. Adam, 1971: 377. 2. Dalziel, 1937. 3. Irvine, 1961: 640. 4. Kerharo & Bouquet, 1950: 192. 5. Thomas, N. W. 2161 (Nig. Ser.), K. 6. Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk, 1962: 105–6.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Date Updated: 30 April 2005
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 1
Names
Strophanthus preussii Engl. & Pax [family APOCYNACEAE]
Common names
LIBERIA: MANO gbo yiddi (JMD) konên (JGA) IVORY COAST: AKYE napiabaté (Ivanoff) KYAMA abepopo (K&B) GHANA: AKAN-ASANTE dietwa (FRI; JMD) mamfoham (FRI) manpohan (CV) TWI dietwa (FRI; JMD) o-mããtwa-nini (auctt.) NIGERIA: YORUBA iς̣a-kékéré = small (JMD) iς̣a-wẹ́wẹ́ = small (JMD)
Uses
young leaf Food: general sap Medicines: generally healing sap Medicines: venereal diseases sap Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents seed Phytochemistry: alkaloids stem Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus
Description
A robust creeper or climbing shrub to 4 m high, of deciduous and secondary forest and in scrub from Guinea to W Cameroons and Fernando Po, and extending to Angola across central Africa to Tanganyika.The stems are used in S Nigeria to make bows for hunting (5).The sap is healing and is used in Zaïre on wounds and sores, and is given to women in childbirth (6). The sap contains tannin. It is used by the Akye of Ivory Coast in treatment of urethral discharge (4). The young leaves are said to be cooked and eaten as a vegetable in Gabon (6). The reported use of the sap for coagulating Funtumia rubber in Ghana is perhaps in error for the sap of S. sarmentosus (3) — see there.The Mano of the Nimba mountains of Liberia add the seed to poison mixtures but it is less toxic than the seed of S. gratus (1). Its use in the Upper Niger (? Mali) has been recorded, but the Bambara of that area prefer the use of S. hispidus (2). The alkaloids present appear not yet to have been worked out. Sarmentogenin has not been found.
References
References:1. Adam, 1971: 377. 2. Dalziel, 1937. 3. Irvine, 1961: 640. 4. Kerharo & Bouquet, 1950: 192. 5. Thomas, N. W. 2161 (Nig. Ser.), K. 6. Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk, 1962: 105–6.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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