Cnestis ferruginea Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Oxalidales > Connaraceae > Cnestis

Characteristics

A shrub or woody climber. It grows 8 m tall.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 7.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in forest and woodland. It can also be in palm groves. It has been recorded at 1,060 m above sea level in Nigeria.
More
Deciduous forest and secondary scrub.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses dye environmental use food material medicinal poison social use
Edible fruits saps stems
Therapeutic use Abortifacient (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Antiabortifacient (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Cold (unspecified), Dentifrice (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Gonorrhea (unspecified), Madness (unspecified), Migraine (unspecified), Ophthalmia (unspecified), Ovary (unspecified), Pyorrhea (unspecified), Sinusitis (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Sore(Throat) (unspecified), Stomatitis (unspecified), Teeth (unspecified), Toothache (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Cnestis ferruginea leaf picture by Gnagbo Anthelme (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Cnestis ferruginea flower picture by Cri Mai (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Cnestis ferruginea fruit picture by Gnagbo Anthelme (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Cnestis ferruginea world distribution map, present in Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Panama, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, and Togo

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:264225-1
WFO ID wfo-0000612683
COL ID WHX2
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Cnestis ferruginea Cnestis fraterna Cnestis oblongifolia Spondioides ferruginea Agelaea ferruginea Cnestis togoensis