Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Maranthes polyandra

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Maranthes polyandra is an evergreen tree with a gnarled and twisted bole, growing to about 8 metres tall[ 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/ ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local medicinal use, and also for its timber and tannins.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Cote D'Ivoire to Sudan.

HabitatWooded savannah[ 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/ ]. Woodland and wooded grassland[ 735 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 19: 1-268 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56833 2 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ].