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Alchornea cordifolia

Botanic Family

Euphorbiaceae

Author

(Schumacher & Thonning in C.F. Schumacher) Müller of Aargau

Common Names

• Mbondje (Mitsogho)
• Omujuluhuzi (Kihaya)
• Bunji (Andiri)
• Kunjikapi (Nduye)
• Kunjikakpa (Nduye)
• Christmas Bush (Sierra Leone)
• Umungoro (Kirundi)
• Vandia (Zande)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge on dry river bed
• disturbed areas
• streamside. forest
• gallery forest
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Nov (Cameroon) Mar (Zaire) Feb
• Oct (Gabon)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Jun (Cameroon) Dec (Equatorial Guinea) Dec (Gabon) Feb (Ghana)

Cauliflorous woody dioecious tree to 15m, shrub, herb or twining liana with pubescent twigs. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 250mm x 150mm. Axillary male panicles, female flowers in long lax spikes, creamy-green flowers. Female flowers with 4-lobed calyx. Cauliflorous 8mm wide red fruit with persistent style.

Stems used for hoe-shafts, house construction, leaves used for colouring, leaves, stems & roots have medicinal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• Botanicus
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• FOTA
• FOL
• Ichikawa
• FWTA