Summary
Place of publication:
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 11: t. 1098. 1871
Verified:
02/23/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
kombe – kombe arrow-poison – Swahili
mchoki – Swedish
kombestrofant –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Kenya | | |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Malawi | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Mozambique | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Zambia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Zimbabwe | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | Botswana | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | Namibia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | Transvaal | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
Native
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya, Tanzania
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SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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SOUTHERN AFRICA:
Botswana, Namibia, South Africa [Transvaal]
Cultivated
()
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Medicines | source of strophanthin | | Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1985-2004 1:182. |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Verdcourt, B. & E. C. Trump. Common poisonous plants of East Africa. 1969 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=35817.
Accessed 20 September 2024.