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Strombosia grandifolia Hook.f. [family OLACACEAE]

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
Strombosia grandifolia Hook.f. [family OLACACEAE]
Common names
NIGERIA: BOKYI keshu (JMD) EDO aramemila (KO&S) aranmamila (JMD) aranmila (Lowe) ubẹlu (Dennett; JMD) EJAGHAM numinamano (Gray; JMD) YORUBA itako pupa (KO&S) WEST CAMEROONS: DUALA bòmbànda (Ithmann) KPE ifondo (AHU; JMD) wofondo (AHU; JMD)
Uses
(seed) Food: general (bark) Medicines: pulmonary troubles (bark) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (bark) Phytochemistry: glycosides, saponims, steroids (bark) Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents (timber) Products: building materials (bark-dye) Products: pottery (bark) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants (timber) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (timber) Products: pastimes-carving, musical instruments, games, toys, etc.
Description
An understorey bush or tree to 15 m high (Zaïre: 25 m, 4) with short bole 8 to 60 cm diameter (Zaïre: 4), branching low down producing a dense spreading crown with dark shining foliage; of the evergreen closed-forest, swampy or sometimes flooded, or in ga
References
References:1. Bouquet, 1972: 37. 2. Dalziel, 1937: 295. 3. Greenway, 1941: sp. no. 234. 4. Louis & Léonard, 1948: 268–9. 5. Michaud, 1966: 256. 6,a. Walker, 1953,b: 299. 6,b. idem, loc. cit. as Lavelleopsis densivenia Engl. 7. Walker & Sillans, 1961: 317.
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
Strombosia grandifolia Hook.f. [family OLACACEAE]
Common names
NIGERIA: BOKYI keshu(JMD) EDO aramemila (KO&S) aranmamila (JMD) aranmila(Lowe) ubẹlu (Dennett; JMD) EJAGHAM numinamano(Gray; JMD) YORUBA itako pupa (KO&S) WEST CAMEROONS: DUALA bòmbànda(Ithmann) KPE ifondo (AHU; JMD) wofondo (AHU; JMD)
Uses
(seed) Food: general (bark) Medicines: pulmonary troubles (bark) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (bark) Phytochemistry: glycosides, saponims, steroids (bark) Phytochemistry: tannins, astringents (timber) Products: building materials (bark-dye) Products: pottery (bark) Products: dyes, stains, inks, tattoos and mordants (timber) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (timber) Products: pastimes-carving, musical instruments, games, toys, etc.
Description
An understorey bush or tree to 15 m high(Zaïre: 25 m, 4) with short bole 8 to 60 cm diameter(Zaïre: 4), branching low down producing a dense spreadingcrown with dark shining foliage; of the evergreen closed-forest,swampy or sometimes flooded, or in ga
References
References:1. Bouquet, 1972: 37. 2. Dalziel, 1937: 295.3. Greenway, 1941: sp. no. 234. 4. Louis & Léonard, 1948:268–9. 5. Michaud, 1966: 256. 6,a. Walker, 1953,b: 299. 6,b.idem, loc. cit. as Lavelleopsis densivenia Engl. 7. Walker& Sillans, 1961: 317.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Strombosia grandifolia Hook.f. [family OLACACEAE]
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