Convolvulaceae FAMILY

Neuropeltis acuminata

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Neuropeltis acuminata is a vigorous climbing shrub with stout, woody, contorted stems that can be 9 - 40 metres long and 25cm wide at the base[ 515 Title Flora of Tropical Africa Vol 1 - 8 Publication Author Var Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher L.Reeve & Co.; Ashford, Kent. Year 1868 - 1917 ISBN Description Very little information on habitat, range and uses, but gives good descriptions of the plants. It can be downloaded from the internet. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a source of food and tying materials.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Senegal to Cameroon and the Central African Republic, south to Angola and DR Congo.

HabitatForests[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. Evergreen, primary forest as well as in more open secondary forest formations; gallery forests; and in swamps. In older forest it becomes one of the dominant climbing species. It has been recorded from elevations up to 1,500 metres[ 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. ].