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Millettia rhodantha Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

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
Millettia rhodantha Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Common names
SIERRA LEONE: KISSI nyaŋga (S&F) KONO katindane (S&F) taugbe (S&F) KORANKO firesosie (NWT) LOKO hegbaama (FCD) heigbahama (FCD; S&F) njagσi (NWT) MENDE heilegbama (S&F) moigbama (Dawe) togwe (LP; JMD) tσlu-gbεlε (FCD; S&F) TEMNE ka-lin (auc
Uses
(bark) Medicines: pulmonary troubles Agri-horticulture: bee/honey plants, insect plants (branches) Products: building materials
Description
A tree to 12 m high of the closed-forest in Guinea to Ghana.The wood is recorded as hard, yellow and with an aromatic smell (1, 2). The branches are flexible and are used in Sierra Leone in hut-building (4).The bark is used in Sierra Leone as a cough-medi
References
References:1. Dalziel, 1937: 251. 2. Irvine, 1961: 394. 3. Leeuwenberg 3007, FBC. 4. Savill & Fox, 1967: 205.
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
Millettia rhodantha Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Common names
SIERRA LEONE: KISSI nyaŋga(S&F) KONO katindane (S&F) taugbe (S&F) KORANKO firesosie(NWT) LOKO hegbaama (FCD) heigbahama (FCD; S&F)njagσi (NWT) MENDE heilegbama (S&F) moigbama (Dawe) togwe (LP;JMD) tσlu-gbεlε (FCD; S&F) TEMNE ka-lin(auc
Uses
(bark) Medicines: pulmonary troubles Agri-horticulture: bee/honey plants, insect plants (branches) Products: building materials
Description
A tree to 12 m high of the closed-forest inGuinea to Ghana.The wood is recorded as hard, yellow andwith an aromatic smell (1, 2). The branches are flexible and areused in Sierra Leone in hut-building (4).The bark is used in Sierra Leone as acough-medi
References
References:1. Dalziel, 1937: 251. 2. Irvine, 1961: 394.3. Leeuwenberg 3007, FBC. 4. Savill & Fox, 1967: 205.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Millettia rhodantha Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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