Rubiaceae FAMILY

Pavetta owariensis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Pavetta owariensis is an evergreen shrub or a small tree that can range widely in height from 2 metres up to 15 metres tall[ 479 Title Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Volume 83 Publication Author Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Year 0 ISBN Description Contains, amongst other things, an article on ethnobotany. It can be downloaded from the internet. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Liberia to Nigeria and Cameroon, south to Gabon and Congo

HabitatAn understorey plant in mature forest, also in secondary forest and at forest edges; at elevations from 800 - 1,400 metres[ 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/ , 479 Title Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Volume 83 Publication Author Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Year 0 ISBN Description Contains, amongst other things, an article on ethnobotany. It can be downloaded from the internet. ].