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Blighia unijugata Bak. [family SAPINDACEAE]
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 5
Names
Blighia unijugata Bak. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Phialodiscus unijugata Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Common names
GUINEA-BISSAU: BIAFADA bissabe (JDES) SUSU beleque-súlè (JDES) SIERRA LEONE ‘: DASE’ mano (Pyne) KISSI maiyo-sundo (S&F) sundo (FCD;S&F) KONO muŋgσpo (S&F) KORANKO kologalankoŋ (S&F) KRIO dai-dai i.e., die-die (S&F) inshi (S&F) MENDE jerri
Uses
(seed(?)) Food: general (seed) Medicines: generally healing (leaf) Medicines: pain-killers (leaf) Medicines: sedatives, etc. (leaf) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (fruit, seed) Medicines: antemetics (bark, root) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (root) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (leaf) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (leaf) Medicines: abortifacients, ecbolics (bark, leaf, root) Medicines: fabrifuges (leaf) Medicines: malnutrition, debility (leaf-sap, root) Medicines: brain, nervous system (fruit-capsule) Phytochemistry: glycosides, saponims, steroids (leaf, twig, flower, fruit) Phytochemistry: fish-poisons (seed) Phytochemistry: fatty acids, etc. Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended Agri-horticulture: weeds, parasites (fruit (birds, small animals)) Agri-horticulture: fodder Agri-horticulture: bee/honey plants, insect plants Agri-horticulture: shade-trees (timber) Products: building materials (timber) Products: carpentry and related applications (timber) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (timber) Products: household, domestic and personal items (wood) Products: pastimes-carving, musical instruments, games, toys, etc.
Description
A tree, usually small, but sometimes attaining 35 m height, bole usually short with girth up to 2 m; of the forest, in Sierra Leone to W Cameroons, and widely dispersed in NE, E and S central tropical Africa.When bush is being cleared, the tree is often r
References
References:1. Aubréville, 1959: 2: 224. 2. Baldwin Jr. 6737, K. 3. Bally B.8847, K. 4. Bouquet, 1969: 221. 5. Bouquet & Debray, 1974: 159. 6. Burtt Davy & Hoyle, 1937: 128, as Phialodiscus unijugatus Radlk. 7. Chandler 1310, K. 8. Cole & Jarr EAC.74, K. 9
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 5
Names
Blighia unijugata Bak. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Phialodiscus unijugata Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Common names
GUINEA-BISSAU: BIAFADA bissabe (JDES) SUSU beleque-súlè (JDES) SIERRA LEONE ‘: DASE’ mano (Pyne) KISSI maiyo-sundo (S&F) sundo (FCD;S&F) KONO muŋgσpo (S&F) KORANKO kologalankoŋ (S&F) KRIO dai-dai i.e., die-die (S&F) inshi (S&F) MENDE jerri
Uses
(seed(?)) Food: general (seed) Medicines: generally healing (leaf) Medicines: pain-killers (leaf) Medicines: sedatives, etc. (leaf) Medicines: arthritis, rheumatism, etc. (fruit, seed) Medicines: antemetics (bark, root) Medicines: laxatives, etc. (root) Medicines: diarrhoea, dysentery (leaf) Medicines: kidneys, diuretics (leaf) Medicines: abortifacients, ecbolics (bark, leaf, root) Medicines: fabrifuges (leaf) Medicines: malnutrition, debility (leaf-sap, root) Medicines: brain, nervous system (fruit-capsule) Phytochemistry: glycosides, saponims, steroids (leaf, twig, flower, fruit) Phytochemistry: fish-poisons (seed) Phytochemistry: fatty acids, etc. Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended Agri-horticulture: weeds, parasites (fruit (birds, small animals)) Agri-horticulture: fodder Agri-horticulture: bee/honey plants, insect plants Agri-horticulture: shade-trees (timber) Products: building materials (timber) Products: carpentry and related applications (timber) Products: farming, forestry, hunting and fishing apparatus (timber) Products: household, domestic and personal items (wood) Products: pastimes-carving, musical instruments, games, toys, etc.
Description
A tree, usually small, but sometimes attaining 35 m height, bole usually short with girth up to 2 m; of the forest, in Sierra Leone to W Cameroons, and widely dispersed in NE, E and S central tropical Africa.When bush is being cleared, the tree is often r
References
References:1. Aubréville, 1959: 2: 224. 2. Baldwin Jr. 6737, K. 3. Bally B.8847, K. 4. Bouquet, 1969: 221. 5. Bouquet & Debray, 1974: 159. 6. Burtt Davy & Hoyle, 1937: 128, as Phialodiscus unijugatus Radlk. 7. Chandler 1310, K. 8. Cole & Jarr EAC.74, K. 9
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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