Melastomataceae FAMILY
Lepidotrichilia volkensii
Lepidotrichilia volkensii
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Lepidotrichilia volkensii is an evergreen shrub or tree with a strongly-branched, spreading crown; it can grow from 3 - 20 metres tall, exceptionally to 25 metres. The small bole is often fluted[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of wood.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeEast tropical Africa - Sudan, Ethiopia, eastern DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi.
HabitatAn understorey tree of moist forest types in the montane zone at elevations from 1,050 - 2,400 metres, sometimes to 3,300 metres. Often found in association with Podocarpus, Hagenia and Schefflera, but sometimes also in secondary evergreen bushland[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].