Menispermaceae FAMILY

Limaciopsis loangensis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Limaciopsis loangensis is a climbing shrub producing vigorous, twining stems up to 8cm in diameter from a large underground tuber up to 50 - 60cm 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.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, northern Angola.

HabitatRain-forest, secondary forest; fringing forest and forest relics in savannah[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ].