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Zanthoxylum leprieurii Guill. & Perr. [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 angolensis Engl. [family RUTACEAE] Fagara attiensis Hutch. & Dalz. [family RUTACEAE] Fagara leprieurii Engl., [family RUTACEAE] Zanthoxylum leprieurii Guill. & Perr. [family RUTACEAE]
Common names
SENEGAL: BANYUN sekra (K&A) sikra (K&A) DIOLA (Brin/Seleki) biri kit (K&A) bugit (K&A) DIOLA (Fogny) bulin (K&A) karsandako (K&A) kasań (K&A) DIOLA (Tentouck) busań (K&A) fosań (K&A) DIOLA-FLUP budoginam (K&A) MANDING-BAMBARA sotokuru (JB;
Uses
(leaf) Food: special diets (bark, root) Medicines: pain-killers (bark, root) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (bark, root) Medicines: oral treatments (bark, root) Medicines: stomach troubles (root) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (root) Medicines: vermifuges (bark, root) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (bark, root) Medicines: venereal diseases (root, twig-bark) Medicines: leprosy (bark) Phytochemistry: arrow-poisons (bark, root, flower, fruit) Phytochemistry: aromatic substances (bark, root) Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended (fruit (birds)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (wood) Products: building materials (wood) Products: carpentry and related applications (trunk, wood) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (wood) Products: fuel and lighting (wood) Products: pastimes-carving, musical instruments, games, toys, etc. (root) Products: chew-sticks, etc.
Description
A tree to 24 m tall, bole 1–1½ m girth, relatively short, not very straight, bearing broad-based spines, low-branching, branches also spined, forming a spreading crown; of the forest understorey, or beside streams in open country; relatively common and wi
References
References:1. Bidgood & al. 1346, 1539, K. 2. Bouquet & Debray, 1974: 156, as Fargara leprieurii. 3. Cooper & Record, 1931: 86–87, as F. angolensis Engl. 4,a. Dalziel, 1937: 307, as F. angolensis Engl. 4,b. idem, loc. cit., 307, as F. attiensis Hutch. & D
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Zanthoxylum leprieurii Guill. & Perr. [family RUTACEAE]
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