Summary
Place of publication:
F. A. Pax, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15:369. 1892
Verified:
01/23/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Burkill, H. M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. 1985-2004 1:183.
- Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. 2008
- Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
- Irvine, F. R. 1961. Woody plants of Ghana.
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
- Llamas, K. A. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation. 2003
- Pinchon, M. 1953. Classification des Apocynacées: XXXV, Monographie des Landolphiées. Mém Inst. Franç. Afrique Noire 35:64.
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
Common names
English
medisa-flower –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Uganda | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Angola | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Benin | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Côte D'Ivoire | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Ghana | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Guinea | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Liberia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Nigeria | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Sierra Leone | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Togo | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Cameroon | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Congo | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Equatorial Guinea | Rio Muni | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Gabon | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Zaire | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
Native
Africa
-
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Tanzania, Uganda
-
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola
-
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Benin, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo
-
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea [Rio Muni], Zaire
Cultivated
()
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952- |
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=35825.
Accessed 20 September 2024.