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Xylopia acutiflora

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Species of plant

Xylopia acutiflora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Xylopia
Species: X. acutiflora
Binomial name
Xylopia acutiflora
A. Richard
Synonyms

Unona acutiflora Dunal

Coelocline acutiflora (Dunal)

Xylopicrum acutiflorum (Dunal) K

Unona oxypetala Candolle ex Dunal

Coelocline? oxypetala (Candolle ex Dunal)

Xylopia oxypetala (Candolle ex Dunal)

Xylopia acutiflora (Dunal.) A. Rich is a small tree that grows up to 15 m high, it belongs to the Annonaceae family.

Description

Brown pubescent twigs mixed with erect and short hairs. Leaf blades chartaceous, concolorous - slightly discolorous, elliptic - elliptic-lanceolate, larger blades, 5.3 - 11.7 cm long and 2.3 - 4.3 cm wide; acute to acuminate at apex and cuneate at base. Flowers are solitary Fruit green - reddish tinged exterior, scarlet endocarp, up to born on a pedicel. Seed, ovate- ellipsoid, monocarps have two rows of seed.

Distribution

Native to West Africa, found in lowland forests.

Uses

In Ghana and among the Ehotile people of Akanland, root extracts from the species is used as a sexual stimulant and as a chewing stick. Seeds are crushed and used as spice, wood obtained are used as material to make canoe paddles, spears or bows.

References

  1. ^ Johnson, David M.; Murray, Nancy A. (2018-04-24). "A revision of Xylopia L. (Annonaceae): the species of Tropical Africa". PhytoKeys (97): 1–252. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.97.20975. ISSN 1314-2003.
  2. Hasan, Choudhury M.; Healey, Terence M.; Waterman, Peter G. (1985). "Acutifloric acid: A diterpene dimer from the stem bark of Xylopia acutiflora". Phytochemistry. 24 (1): 192–194. Bibcode:1985PChem..24..192H. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)80841-9.
  3. Malan, Djah F; Neuba, Danho F R; Kouakou, Kouakou L (2015). "Medicinal plants and traditional healing practices in ehotile people, around the aby lagoon (eastern littoral of Côte d'Ivoire)". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 11 (1): 21. doi:10.1186/s13002-015-0004-8. ISSN 1746-4269. PMC 4391329. PMID 25888765.
Taxon identifiers
Xylopia acutiflora
Unona acutiflora
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