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Scytopetalum tieghemii (A Chev.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCYTOPETALACEAE]

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
Scytopetalum tieghemii (A Chev.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCYTOPETALACEAE]
Common names
SIERRA LEONE: KONO duekε (FCD; S&F) papa-kσne (S&F) MENDE ndegbe-mewuli (or -mewulo) from mewuli: stick; eaten by ndegbei: a fish of the ‘cat’ family [?meaning] (auctt.) degbeme-yawii from yawii: a gum tree (S&F) deŋbemewulo (FCD) dengbeyaw
Uses
(fruit) Food: general (bark) Medicines: pulmonary troubles (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (twig) Medicines: skin, mucosae (twig) Medicines: leprosy (fruit (monkey)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (pods) Products: building materials (wood) Products: abrasives, cleaners, etc.
Description
A tree 20 m (-25 m) high, bole to 1 m girth, straight, cylindrical, sometimes buttressed, with high weeping branches; of the closed rain-forest in relatively damp sites, often abundant, in Sierra Leone to Ghana.Sap-wood is light brown and hard. Heart-wood
References
References:1. Anon., s.d., a: 1. 2. Aubréville, 1959, 2:309. 3. Bouquet & Debray, 1974: 164. 4. Buboh, 1974. 5. Cooper C.224, C.247, C.356, K. 6. Cooper & Record, 1931: 43, with timber characters. 7. Dalziel, 1937: 95. 8. Deighton 4283, K. 9. Irvine, 1961
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
Scytopetalum tieghemii (A Chev.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCYTOPETALACEAE]
Common names
SIERRA LEONE: KONO duekε (FCD; S&F) papa-kσne (S&F) MENDE ndegbe-mewuli (or -mewulo) from mewuli: stick; eaten by ndegbei: a fish of the ‘cat’ family [?meaning] (auctt.) degbeme-yawii from yawii: a gum tree (S&F) deŋbemewulo (FCD) dengbeyaw
Uses
(fruit) Food: general (bark) Medicines: pulmonary troubles (bark) Medicines: stomach troubles (twig) Medicines: skin, mucosae (twig) Medicines: leprosy (fruit (monkey)) Agri-horticulture: fodder (pods) Products: building materials (wood) Products: abrasives, cleaners, etc.
Description
A tree 20 m (-25 m) high, bole to 1 m girth, straight, cylindrical, sometimes buttressed, with high weeping branches; of the closed rain-forest in relatively damp sites, often abundant, in Sierra Leone to Ghana.Sap-wood is light brown and hard. Heart-wood
References
References:1. Anon., s.d., a: 1. 2. Aubréville, 1959, 2:309. 3. Bouquet & Debray, 1974: 164. 4. Buboh, 1974. 5. Cooper C.224, C.247, C.356, K. 6. Cooper & Record, 1931: 43, with timber characters. 7. Dalziel, 1937: 95. 8. Deighton 4283, K. 9. Irvine, 1961
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Scytopetalum tieghemii (A Chev.) Hutch. & Dalz. [family SCYTOPETALACEAE]
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