Passifloraceae FAMILY Least Concern

Paropsia grewioides

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitTree

Growth—

The species has a disjuct range. The main area is in western Africa from Cameroon to Angola, but there is also an eastern form of the species (Paropsia grewioides orientalis Sleumer) that is found in Tanzania and Mozambique^{[1, 2]}.

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Paropsia+grewioides>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

[1]Flora Zambesiaca — http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html ↩︎An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants.
[2]Flora of Tropical East Africa — Beentje H.J. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 2002 · http://plants.jstor.org/search?st=396814 ↩︎Available on-line, a modern flora of East Africa.
[3]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
[4]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.