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Macrosphyra longistyla (DC.) Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE]

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
Macrosphyra longistyla (DC.) Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE]
Common names
SENEGAL: BANYUN bańitfébi (K&A) DIOLA banététu (JB; K&A) MANDING-BAMBARA kalalé (K&A) kosafiné (JB; K&A) kulalé (JMD fide K&A) MANDINKA kukuri nanêgo (K&A) MANINKA kalalé (K&A) kulalé (JMD fide K&A) ‘ SOCE’ mâkalińo (K&A) mâkalińô (K&A) NON
Uses
(fruit) Food: general (leaf, flower) Medicines: generally healing (flower) Medicines: sedatives, etc. (root) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (leaf) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (leaf) Medicines: abortifacients, ecbolics (leaf) Medicines: fabrifuges (leaf) Medicines: leprosy Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended (flower) Products: household, domestic and personal items
Description
A scandent shrub with long arching stems to about 4 m long; commonly of damp depressions in waste places of secondary jungle along the coastal part of the Region, but sometimes found inland; in Senegal to W Cameroons, and in Sudan and Uganda.The flowers a
References
References:1. Bouquet & Debray, 1974: 148, 150. 2. Dalziel, 1937: 401. 3. Deighton 5105, K. 4. Gomez e Sousa, 1930: 61. 5. Hepper & Morton A .3064, K. 6. Irvine, 1961: 681–3. 7. Kerharo & Adam, 1963,b. 8. idem, 1964,c: 314. 9. idem, 1974: 692. 10. Kerharo
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
Macrosphyra longistyla (DC.) Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE]
Common names
SENEGAL: BANYUN bańitfébi (K&A) DIOLA banététu (JB; K&A) MANDING-BAMBARA kalalé (K&A) kosafiné (JB; K&A)kulalé (JMD fide K&A) MANDINKA kukurinanêgo (K&A) MANINKA kalalé (K&A) kulalé (JMD fideK&A) ‘ SOCE’ mâkalińo (K&A)mâkalińô (K&A) NON
Uses
(fruit) Food: general (leaf, flower) Medicines: generally healing (flower) Medicines: sedatives, etc. (root) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (leaf) Medicines: cutaneous, subcutaneous parasitic infection (leaf) Medicines: abortifacients, ecbolics (leaf) Medicines: fabrifuges (leaf) Medicines: leprosy Phytochemistry: alkaloids Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended (flower) Products: household, domestic and personal items
Description
A scandent shrub with long arching stems toabout 4 m long; commonly of damp depressions in waste places ofsecondary jungle along the coastal part of the Region, butsometimes found inland; in Senegal to W Cameroons, and in Sudan andUganda.The flowers a
References
References:1. Bouquet & Debray, 1974: 148, 150. 2.Dalziel, 1937: 401. 3. Deighton 5105, K. 4. Gomez e Sousa, 1930:61. 5. Hepper & Morton A .3064, K. 6. Irvine, 1961:681–3. 7. Kerharo & Adam, 1963,b. 8. idem, 1964,c: 314.9. idem, 1974: 692. 10. Kerharo
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Macrosphyra longistyla (DC.) Hook.f. [family RUBIACEAE]
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