Landolphia buchananii

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Landolphia buchananii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Landolphia
Species:
L. buchananii
Binomial name
Landolphia buchananii
Synonyms [1]
  • Clitandra buchananiiHallier f.
  • Clitandra kilimandjaricaWarb.
  • Clitandra semlikiensisRobyns & Boutique
  • Jasminochyla ugandensis(Stapf) Pichon
  • Landolphia cameronisStapf
  • Landolphia kilimandjarica(Warb.) Stapf
  • Landolphia rogersiiStapf
  • Landolphia swynnertoniiS.Moore
  • Landolphia ugandensisStapf

Landolphia buchananii is a liana within the Apocynaceae family. [2] It is sometimes called Nandi rubber in English and known locally as Mugu among Kikuyus. [3] Occurs in savannahs and montane forests in East Africa and Southeastern Nigeria.

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Description

As a climbing liana, it that can go as high as 40 meters and reach a diameter of 23 cm, occasionally, a sarmentose shrub, it can be capable of reaching 7 meters high; its stem is dark brown with white latex. [4] Coriaceous leaves and a glabrous or pilose petiole that is 1.5-8 mm long. Leaf blades are elliptic to obovate in outline, 1.9-14.5 cm long and 0.8-6 cm wide; leaflets are covered with minute or woolly hairs but can occasionally be glabrous. [4] Terminal inflorescence, 2-20 flowered, composed of sepals that glabrous on the outside; fragrant flower with white, creamy or yellowish colored corolla and tubes that are sometimes green. [4] Peduncle can be tendril like, curled or elongate and is 5-33 mm long, pedicel is 1.2-6.5 mm long. Fruit, 2-20 seeded is globular in form, usually green with white or light brown spots on it. [4]

Distribution

Occurs in West, Central and East Africa, from Nigeria in the west to Sudan in Central Africa and southwards to Zimbabwe. [4]

Uses

Ripe fruits are eaten by locals while stems are used in rope and basket making, root extracts are traditionally used to treat gonorrhea and bilharzia while leaf extracts are used to treat wounds. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Landolphia buchananii (Hallier f.) Stapf". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Landolphia buchananii (Hallier fil.) Stapf". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000. n.d. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  3. ↑ Omino, E.A.; Kokwaro, J.O. (1993). "Ethnobotany of Apocynaceae species in Kenya". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 40 (3): 167–180. doi:10.1016/0378-8741(93)90065-D. PMID   8145572.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Omino, Elizabeth (2002). Apocynaceae (part 1). Rotterdam: Balkema. pp. 18–19. ISBN   90-5809-409-X. OCLC   51341017.
  5. ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2012). CRC world dictionary of medicinal and poisonous plants : common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC, Taylor & Francis Group. p. 2206. ISBN   978-1-4200-8044-5. OCLC   774639599.
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