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Physostigma venenosum Balf.

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GENUS: Physostigma Balf.

Physostigma venenosum Balf. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Calabar Bean [212, 1902]; Ordeal Bean [14]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [212]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [212]; Gabon (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Liberia (N) [212]; Mali (N) [561]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Zaire (N) [212]
  Asia
China (I) [3424]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [212, 230, 304, 3424]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova MS extract

  
USES:
  Toxins [14, 52]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

52.

  Verdcourt, B. & Trump, E.C., 1969
    Common Poisonous Plants of East Africa

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

212.

  Hepper, F.N., 1958
    Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

230.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge Vol.6. Dalbergieae,Vicieae,Phaseoleae

304.

  Gillett, J.B., 1966
    Kew Bull.20:103-11.Notes on Legums.(Physostigma,Vatovaea).

561.

  Boudet, G. & Lebrun, J.-P., 1986
    Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.

1902.

  Terrell, E.E., 1977
    Checklist of Names for 3,000 Vas.Pl... Agric.Handbook No.505

3424.

  Wu, T.L., 1995
    Canavalia &... In: Fl.Reip.Pop.Sinicae, 41 (Leguminosae 3)

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