Opiliaceae FAMILY
Urobotrya congolana
Urobotrya congolana
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Urobotrya congolana is a shrub or small tree, sometimes adopting a more climbing habit. The plant can be 4 - 5 metres tall[ 733 Title Opiliaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 12: 1-71 Publication Author Hiepko P. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève; Switze Year 2008 ISBN 978-2-8277-0451-4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of wood.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Sierra Leone to Cameroon, south to Gabon and Congo.
HabitatAn undershrub in rain-forest or dry forest, in riverine forest and secondary forest[ 733 Title Opiliaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 12: 1-71 Publication Author Hiepko P. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève; Switze Year 2008 ISBN 978-2-8277-0451-4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].