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Passifloraceae FAMILY Least Concern

Paropsia grewioides

Paropsia grewioides

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Paropsia grewioides is a shrub or a tree that usually grows from 3 - 10 metres tall, exceptionally to 20 metres. The bole can be 30cm in diameter[ 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 plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local medicinal use. Both lowland and montane forest across this taxon's range are under pressure of development from smallholder agriculture, urbanization and wood harvesting. However, because of the large number of locations and the occurrence in many protected areas of this species, it is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical
Native RangeTropical Africa - Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, northern Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique.
HabitatMoist forest, forest margin, degraded forest[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ]. Semi-deciduous forest, littoral forest and dry forest, also in secondary forest and thickets[ 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. ].