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Trilepisium madagascariense DC. [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
Bosqueia angolensis Ficalho. [family MORACEAE]
Trilepisium madagascariense DC. [family MORACEAE]
Common names
IVORY COAST: AKYE daocu (Aub.; K&B) metchi (A Chev.; K&B) ANYI hésiriwa (A Chev.; K&B) triwa (A Chev.; K&B) BAULE bakie (Aub.) bli (B&D) mbaki (Aub.) mbaki-bakié (K&B) uaka mle (Aub.) DAN niandien (auctt.) paa (auctt.) FULA-FULFULDE (Ivory
Uses
(fruit-pulp, kernel) Food: general (latex) Medicines: generally healing (bark, leaf) Medicines: pain-killers (bark) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (latex) Medicines: eye treatments (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (bark, leaf, leaf-sap) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (root) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (bark) Medicines: venereal diseases (latex, bark, root) Medicines: malnutrition, debility (tree) Agri-horticulture: weeds, parasites (fruit (wild animals)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (wood) Products: building materials (wood, latex) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants (bark) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (wood) Products: carpentry and related applications (latex) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (wood) Products: fuel and lighting (wood, latex) Products: household, domestic and personal items Social: religion, superstitions, magic
Description
A deciduous tree to 30 m high, bole short, somewhat fluted and twisted, with or without buttresses, to 1½ m girth; of the middle storey of the high-forest, locally abundant, and extending on to the borders of savanna; across the Region from Guinea to W Ca
References
References:1. Abbiw, 1990: 14, 46, 83, 86, 91, 105, 144, 224, 227. 2. Ampofo, 1983: 40–41, as Bosquiea angolensis. 3. Anon., 1965, b: as B. angolensis. 4. Anon. ad not., K. 5. Aubréville, 1950: 333, as B. phoberos Baill. 6. idem, 1959: 2: 68, as B. phober
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
Bosqueia angolensis Ficalho. [family MORACEAE]
Trilepisium madagascariense DC. [family MORACEAE]
Common names
IVORY COAST: AKYE daocu (Aub.;K&B) metchi (A Chev.; K&B) ANYI hésiriwa (AChev.; K&B) triwa (A Chev.; K&B) BAULE bakie (Aub.) bli(B&D) mbaki (Aub.) mbaki-bakié (K&B) uaka mle(Aub.) DAN niandien (auctt.) paa (auctt.) FULA-FULFULDE (Ivory
Uses
(fruit-pulp, kernel) Food: general (latex) Medicines: generally healing (bark, leaf) Medicines: pain-killers (bark) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (latex) Medicines: eye treatments (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (bark, leaf, leaf-sap) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (root) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (bark) Medicines: venereal diseases (latex, bark, root) Medicines: malnutrition, debility (tree) Agri-horticulture: weeds, parasites (fruit (wild animals)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (wood) Products: building materials (wood, latex) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants (bark) Products: exudations-gums, resins, etc. (wood) Products: carpentry and related applications (latex) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (wood) Products: fuel and lighting (wood, latex) Products: household, domestic and personal items Social: religion, superstitions, magic
Description
A deciduous tree to 30 m high, bole short,somewhat fluted and twisted, with or without buttresses, to 1½m girth; of the middle storey of the high-forest, locally abundant,and extending on to the borders of savanna; across the Region fromGuinea to W Ca
References
References:1. Abbiw, 1990: 14, 46, 83, 86, 91, 105, 144,224, 227. 2. Ampofo, 1983: 40–41, as Bosquieaangolensis. 3. Anon., 1965, b: as B. angolensis. 4.Anon. ad not., K. 5. Aubréville, 1950: 333, as B.phoberos Baill. 6. idem, 1959: 2: 68, as B. phober
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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