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Erythrophleum ivorense A Chev. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]

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 3
Names
Erythrophleum ivorense A Chev. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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
Products
trade: Talitrade: Potrodomtrade: Aluienglish: Sasswood (tree)trade: Erunenglish: Ordeal treetrade: Missanda
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
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 3
Names
Erythrophleum ivorense A Chev. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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
Products
trade: Talitrade: Potrodomtrade: Aluienglish: Sasswood (tree)trade: Erunenglish: Ordeal treetrade: Missanda
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
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Erythrophleum ivorense A Chev. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
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