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Urera repens

Botanic Family

Urticaceae

Author

(Weddell) Rendle

Common Names

• Nzaru (Andiri)
• Zaru (Andiri)
• Ola (Nduye)

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Small herbaceous cauliflorous climber or low thinly-wooded creeping herb with glabrous spiny stems. Glabrate leaves 100mm long & slightly wider, pale greenish-pink flowers, male corymbs, flowers with minute bracts & stinging hairs, fruit ripening red

Bark fibre used, leaves used as cooked food or added to soups, leaves & fruit medicinal, fruits edible

Further References

• Mobot
• Jstor
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Ichikawa