Mitragyna inermis
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Mitragyna inermis is a species of plant in the red family(Rubiaceae). It is native to West and Central Africa.
description
Mitragyna inermis grows as a tree that reaches heights of around 8 to 10 meters and is often already heavily branched at the base. The opposite and short-stalked leaves are about 6 to 9 cm long and 3.5 to 5 cm wide and elliptical to obovate. The leaf base is round to heart-shaped and the leaf tip is pointed.
The white to cream-colored and strongly fragrant flowers are grouped in spherical, 2 to 2.5 cm large inflorescences . The black fruit clusters remain on the tree for a long time.
distribution
From Senegal to the Congo and Sudan, Mitragyna inermis occurs mainly in more frequently flooded bank and floodplain areas of bodies of water.
Systematics
This species was named Uncaria inermis by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in Usteri in 1793 . Delect. Opusc. Bot. , 2, p. 199, plate 3 first published . Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze published the name Mitragyna inermis , which is valid today, in Revisio Generum Plantarum , 1, 1891, p. 288. Other synonyms for Mitragyna inermis (Willd.) Kuntze are: Adina inermis (Willd.) Roberty , Cephalanthus africanus Rchb. ex DC. , Mitragyna africana (Willd.) Korth. , Nauclea africana Willd. , Nauclea africana var. Luzoniensis DC. , Nauclea inermis (Willd.) Baill. Hook , Nauclea platanocarpa . f. , Platanocarpum africanum (Willd.) Hook. f. and Stephegyne africana (Willd.) Walp.
use
The bark, leaves and roots of Mitragyna inermis are used as human and veterinary medicine in West Africa.
swell
- M. Arbonnier: Arbres, arbustes et lianes des zones sèches d'Afrique de l'Ouest. , CIRAD, Montpellier, 2000, ISBN 2-87614-431-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Mitragyna inermis. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Accessed June 1, 2020.
- ↑ Mitragyna inermis at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
Web links
- Mitragyna inermis . In: U. Brunken, M. Schmidt, S. Dressler, T. Janssen, A. Thiombiano, G. Zizka: West African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main 2008.
- Prelude Medicinal Plant Database