Myristicaceae FAMILY

Staudtia kamerunensis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Staudtia kamerunensis is a large evergreen tree with a roundish crown; it can grow up to 35 metres tall. The bole, which has narrow buttresses up to 2 metres tall, is up to 75cm in diameter[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local medicinal use and for its timber, which is used locally and also traded.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Nigeria to Central African Republic and Uganda, south to Angola, DR Congo and Zambia.

HabitatLowland rain forest[ 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 riverine forest and margins of swamp forest[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ].