Taxon: Irvingia wombolu Vermoesen

 
Genus: Irvingia
Family: Irvingiaceae
Nomen number: 456291
Place of publication: Man. ess. forest. Congo 136. 1923
Name Verified on: 03-Jul-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 03-Jul-2008
Species priority site is:
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

  • bitter bush-mango   - English
  • dry season bush-mango   - English
  • chocolatier   - French
  • dika   - French
  • manguier sauvage   - French
  • odika   - French
  • ogbono   - French

Economic Importance:

  • Food additives: thickening agent (for soups & stews fide PROTABASE)
  • Human food: oil/fat (fide PROTABASE)
  • Human food: seeds (fide PROTABASE)
  • Animal food: fodder (presscake for cattle feed fide PROTABASE)
  • Materials: lipids (for soap making, for heavy construction fide PROTABASE)
  • Materials: wood (for soap making, for heavy construction fide PROTABASE)
  • Medicines: folklore (fide PROTABASE)

Distributional Range:

    Native:

  • Africa

    • East Tropical Africa: Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa: Angola
    • West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
    • West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Zaire

Check other web resources for Irvingia wombolu Vermoesen :

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.


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