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Zanthoxylum gilletii (De Wild.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE]
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 4
Names
Fagara macrophylla Engl. [family RUTACEAE]
Zanthoxylum gilletii (De Wild.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE]
Common names
English African satinwood (Savill & Fox). Trade bahe, mafu, olondu, olouvogo (Kunkel) GUINEA: KONO kengené (RS) MANO geng-iri (RS) SIERRA LEONE: KISSI bakio (S&F) KONO kpaikinε (FCD; S&F) KORANKO wea (S&F) MENDE fu (def. -i) (FCD; S&F) maku (def. -i) (FCD; S&F) sonli (Cole) so-wulo (def. -wuli) = Bundu devil’s tree (auctt.)
Uses
(young shoot) Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavourings (root) Medicines: blood disorders (bark) Medicines: pain-killers (bark) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (bark) Medicines: oral treatments (bark, young leal) Medicines: pulmonary troubles (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (young leaf) Medicines: vermifuges (bark) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (bark) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (bark) Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants (bark, young leaf) Medicines: venereal diseases (bark) Medicines: fabrifuges (bark) Medicines: small-pox, chicken-pox, measles, etc. (leaf) Medicines: antidotes (venomous stings, bites, etc.) (leaf) Medicines: insanity (leaf) Medicines: heart (bark) Phytochemistry: fish-poisons (bark) Phytochemistry: arrow-poisons (bark) Phytochemistry: uricant (bark) Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent (seed) Phytochemistry: fatty acids, etc. (fruit, seed, root-wood) Phytochemistry: aromatic substances Phytochemistry: alkaloids (timber) Products: building materials (stem, leaf) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (wood) Products: carpentry and related applications (wood) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (stem-spine) Products: household, domestic and personal items (wood, stem-spine) Products: pastimes-carving, musical instruments, games, toys, etc.
Products
english: African satinwoodtrade: Olondutrade: Baheenglish: Satinwood, Africantrade: Olouvogotrade: Mafu
Description
An evergreen tree to 35 m tall, bole straight and cylindrical, up to 2 m girth, with corky thorns which are also present on the larger branches; of the evergreen forest; from Sierra Leone to W Cameroons, and widely dispersed over the rest of tropical Afri
References
References:1. Adegoke & al., 1967; as Fagara macrophylla 2. Adesanya & Sofowora, 1983. 3. Aubréville, 1950: 364, as F. macrophylla Engl. 4. idem, 1959: 2: 107, as F. macrophylla Engl. 5. Boboh, 1974. 6. Bouquet, 1972: 44, as F. macrophylla Engl. 7. Bouque
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 4
Names
Fagara macrophylla Engl. [family RUTACEAE]
Zanthoxylum gilletii (De Wild.) Waterm. [family RUTACEAE]
Common names
English African satinwood (Savill &Fox). Trade bahe, mafu, olondu, olouvogo (Kunkel) GUINEA: KONO kengené(RS) MANO geng-iri (RS) SIERRA LEONE: KISSI bakio(S&F) KONO kpaikinε (FCD; S&F) KORANKO wea(S&F) MENDE fu (def. -i) (FCD; S&F) maku(def. -i) (FCD; S&F) sonli (Cole) so-wulo (def.-wuli) = Bundu devil’s tree (auctt.)
Uses
(young shoot) Food: sauces, condiments, spices, flavourings (root) Medicines: blood disorders (bark) Medicines: pain-killers (bark) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (bark) Medicines: oral treatments (bark, young leal) Medicines: pulmonary troubles (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (young leaf) Medicines: vermifuges (bark) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (bark) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (bark) Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants (bark, young leaf) Medicines: venereal diseases (bark) Medicines: fabrifuges (bark) Medicines: small-pox, chicken-pox, measles, etc. (leaf) Medicines: antidotes (venomous stings, bites, etc.) (leaf) Medicines: insanity (leaf) Medicines: heart (bark) Phytochemistry: fish-poisons (bark) Phytochemistry: arrow-poisons (bark) Phytochemistry: uricant (bark) Phytochemistry: miscellaneously poisonous or repellent (seed) Phytochemistry: fatty acids, etc. (fruit, seed, root-wood) Phytochemistry: aromatic substances Phytochemistry: alkaloids (timber) Products: building materials (stem, leaf) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (wood) Products: carpentry and related applications (wood) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (stem-spine) Products: household, domestic and personal items (wood, stem-spine) Products: pastimes-carving, musical instruments, games, toys, etc.
Products
english: African satinwoodtrade: Olondutrade: Baheenglish: Satinwood, Africantrade: Olouvogotrade: Mafu
Description
An evergreen tree to 35 m tall, bolestraight and cylindrical, up to 2 m girth, with corky thorns whichare also present on the larger branches; of the evergreen forest;from Sierra Leone to W Cameroons, and widely dispersed over therest of tropical Afri
References
References:1. Adegoke & al., 1967; as Fagaramacrophylla 2. Adesanya & Sofowora, 1983. 3.Aubréville, 1950: 364, as F. macrophylla Engl. 4. idem,1959: 2: 107, as F. macrophylla Engl. 5. Boboh, 1974. 6.Bouquet, 1972: 44, as F. macrophylla Engl. 7. Bouque
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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