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Dorstenia kameruniana Engl. [family MORACEAE]

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
Trymatococcus kamerunianus Engl. [family MORACEAE] Craterogyne kameruniana (Engl.) Lanjouw. [family MORACEAE] Dorstenia kameruniana Engl. [family MORACEAE]
Common names
GHANA: AKAN-ASANTE ahwerewa (BD&H; FRI)
Uses
(leaf) Food: general (root) Medicines: lactation stimulants (incl. veterinary) (fruit (monkeys)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (petiole) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (cooked leaf) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (sticks) Products: household, domestic and personal items
Description
An understorey tree to 4 m high, or shrub; of the high-forest in Ivory Coast and Ghana, and widely dispersed over central Africa from E Cameroun to Kenya, Tanganyika and Angola.The leaves are cooked and eaten in Zaïre, and they are there also used as a fi
References
References:1. Breteler 1296, K. 2. De Wilde & De Wilde-Duyfies 1390, K. 3. Gardner 1406, K. 4. Greenway, 1940: 110, as Craterogyne kameruniana (Engl.) Lanj. 5. Haerdi, 1964: 67. as C. kameruniana (Engl.) Lanj. 6. Irvine, 1961: 429, as C. kameruniana (Engl
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
Trymatococcus kamerunianus Engl. [family MORACEAE] Craterogyne kameruniana (Engl.) Lanjouw. [family MORACEAE] Dorstenia kameruniana Engl. [family MORACEAE]
Common names
GHANA: AKAN-ASANTE ahwerewa (BD&H; FRI)
Uses
(leaf) Food: general (root) Medicines: lactation stimulants (incl. veterinary) (fruit (monkeys)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (petiole) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (cooked leaf) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (sticks) Products: household, domestic and personal items
Description
An understorey tree to 4 m high, or shrub;of the high-forest in Ivory Coast and Ghana, and widely dispersedover central Africa from E Cameroun to Kenya, Tanganyika andAngola.The leaves are cooked and eaten inZaïre, and they are there also used as a fi
References
References:1. Breteler 1296, K. 2. De Wilde & DeWilde-Duyfies 1390, K. 3. Gardner 1406, K. 4. Greenway, 1940: 110,as Craterogyne kameruniana (Engl.) Lanj. 5. Haerdi, 1964:67. as C. kameruniana (Engl.) Lanj. 6. Irvine, 1961: 429, as C.kameruniana (Engl
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Dorstenia kameruniana Engl. [family MORACEAE]
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