Desplatsia chrysochlamys

(Mildbr. et Burret) Mildbr. et Burret

MalvaceaeFruit

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit is eaten.

Where to Find It

A tropical plant. It grows in the evergreen forest in West Africa. It can grow in seasonally flooded clearings in forests.

Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, Central African Republic, CAR, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, East Africa, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, West Africa,

Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Identify

A shrub or small tree growing to 6 m high in the Malvaceae family. It is found in tropical evergreen forests and seasonally flooded forest clearings of West Africa.

Notes

There are only a few Desplatsia confined to West Africa. Also put in the family Sparrmanniaceae.

Names & Synonyms

Bedibesa, Elibe essan, Guazi, Kiokio

Ledermannia chrysochlamysGrewiopsis dewevrei

References (4)

Abbiw, D.K., 1990, Useful Plants of Ghana. West African uses of wild and cultivated plants. Intermediate Technology Publications and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. p 46
Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5. Kew.
Jardin, C., 1970, List of Foods Used In Africa, FAO Nutrition Information Document Series No 2.p 132
World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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