Menispermaceae FAMILY
Rhigiocarya racemifera
Rhigiocarya racemifera
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
3/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Rhigiocarya racemifera is a large climbing shrub with stems several metres long that climb into the surrounding vegetation. The stems can be 3 - 5cm in diameter at the base, with corky, comb-like projections about 1cm long[ 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 often harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine, and also supplies a glue, tooth picks and a snake repellent.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeWest tropical Africa - Sierra Leone to Cameroon, south to northern Angola.
HabitatDense, humid, evergreen or semi-deciduous forest, also in forest edges and in secondary forest, at elevations up to 800 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. ].