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Malvaceae FAMILY Vulnerable

Rhodognaphalon brevicuspe

Rhodognaphalon brevicuspe

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

The wood, especially the sawdust, may cause dermatitis in workers when it comes into contact with the skin[1].

Cultivation Details

HabitDeciduous Tree
GrowthSlow

Requires a sunny position[1] Initial growth of the tree is very slow. After planting out in the field, the growth was 20 cm/year during the first 2 years[1]. In southern Côte d’Ivoire the average annual diameter increment was 2.4mm in natural evergreen forest and 4.3mm in thinned forest[1].

Propagation

Seed - sown in light shade in a nursery seedbed. The seed normally sprouts within 5 - 8 days, with a germination rate of 60 - 80%[1]. Seedlings grow slowly. The mean height of nursery-grown plants in Guinea was 13cm at 15 weeks after sowing, 20cm after 43 weeks and 80cm after 2 years, by which time they are ready to plant out. Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Rhodognaphalon+brevicuspe>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. — http://www.prota.org ↩︎An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
  2. [2]African Flowering Plants Database — Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. · http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php ↩︎Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
  3. [3]The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. — Burkil. H. M. · Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. · 1985 - 2004 ↩︎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/
  4. [4]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
  5. [5]Tropix 7 — CIRAD · http://tropix.cirad.fr/en ↩︎An on-line guide to the timbers of 245 species of trees.