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Taxon:  Strychnos spinosa Lam.



Summary
Genus:
Strychnos
Family:
Loganiaceae
Nomen number:
35855
Place of publication:
Tabl. encycl. 2:38. 1794
Verified:
09/14/1998 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Strychnos gilletii De Wild.
Strychnos tonga Gilg
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Reference(s)
  1. Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
  2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Strychnos+spinosa&quantity=1
  3. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. 2003
  4. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  5. Jardin botanique national de Belgique. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale). 1967-
  6. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. 1953-1972
  7. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  8. Sitrit, Y. et al. 2003. Characterization of monkey orange (Strychnos spinosa Lam.), a potential new crop for arid regions. J. Agric. Food Chem. 51:6256-6260.
  9. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  10. Verdcourt, B. & E. C. Trump. Common poisonous plants of East Africa. 1969
Common names
English
Kaffir-orange –
monkey-orange –
Natal-orange –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa [Cape Province (e.), KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar, Mauritius
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Human food
potential as fruit (fide J Agric Food Chem 51:6256-6260. 2003) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Poison Pl EAfr) –


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