Description
Species grows up to tall, the crown is large and spreading while the bark is pale brown with scales and fissures, the species sometimes grows as an epyphyte. Leaves, alternate, petioles and stipules are present; leaflets are ovate to elliptic in outline, up to long and wide. The fruits are globose in shape, reddish and small, usually between in diameter, they are arranged in clusters of 15 in leaf axils on peduncles that can reach in length.Distribution and habitat
Commonly found in the savannah regions of West and East Africa, from Senegal eastwards to Somalia.Uses
The species is used as an antidote to poision in different cultures. In Nigeria, the stem bark extracts of the plant is used in ethnomedicine to treat a variety of ailments including depression, epilepsy and psychosis. It is also used to expel parasitic worms from the body.References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15475926 Flora of West Tropical Africa Plants described in 1826 Taxa named by Alire Raffeneau Delile platyphylla