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Vitex ferruginea

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Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
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Internal ID UUID643ff094181f8012527934
Scientific name Vitex ferruginea
Authority Schumach. & Thonn.
First published in Beskr. Guin. Pl. : 288 (1827)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Vitex amboniensis Gürke Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas , C: 340 (1895)
Vitex amboniensis var. amaniensis W.Piep. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 62(141): 60 1928
Vitex amboniensis var. schlechteri G.Piep. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 62(141): 69 1928
Vitex bracteosa Mildbr. Wiss. Erg. Zweit. Deut. Zentr.-Afr. Exped., Bot. 2: 62 (1922)
Vitex dryadum S.Moore J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 169 (1911)
Vitex ferruginea var. amaniensis (G.Piep.) Verdc. Fl. Trop. E. Africa , Verbenac.: 67 (1992)
Vitex ferruginea subsp. amboniensis (Gürke) Verdc. Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Verben. 66. 1992
Vitex ferruginea var. amboniensis (Gürke) Verdc. Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Verben. 66. 1992
Vitex fosteri C.H.Wright Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1908: 437 (1908)
Vitex guerkeana H.Pearson Fl. Cap. 5: 217 (1901)
Vitex guerkeana Hiern Cat. Afr. Pl. (Hiern) 1(4): 835. 1900
Vitex laevigata Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 330 (1900)
Vitex laurentii De Wild. Ann. Mus. Congo Belge, Bot. , sér. 5, 3: 129 (1909)
Vitex lomiensis Mildbr. Wiss. Erg. Zweit. Deut. Zentr.-Afr. Exped., Bot. 2: 80 (1922)
Vitex oxycuspis var. mossambicensis Moldenke Bol. Soc. Brot. sér. 2, 40: 122. 1966
Vitex pearsonii W.Piep. Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 141: 75 (1928)
Vitex polyantha Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 321 (1900)
Vitex rufescens Gürke Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 18: 169 (1893)
Vitex swynnertonii S.Moore J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 168 (1911)
Vitex tangensis Gürke Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas , C: 339 (1895)
Vitex welwitschii Gürke Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 18: 166 (1893)
Vitex welwitschii var. laurentii (De Wild.) W.Piep. Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 141: 69 (1928)

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Language Common/alternative name
English plum fingerleaf
Afrikaans pruimvingerblaar
Zulu umbendula
Zulu umphenduka

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Mozambique
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
      • Caprivi Strip
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Namibia
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Ivory Coast
      • Liberia
      • Nigeria
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Congo
      • Gabon
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000333079
Tropicos 33702963
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:865712-1
The Plant List kew-213446
Open Tree Of Life 1090266
NCBI Taxonomy 548847
IUCN Red List 62563
IPNI 865712-1
iNaturalist 444767
GBIF 7309564
Tropicos 100274357
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:866069-1
The Plant List kew-213881
Open Tree Of Life 6086881
IPNI 866069-1
iNaturalist 1093531
GBIF 3902069

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Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
Selective and clear-cut logging have varied imprints on tree community structure in a moist semi-deciduous forest in Ghana Addo-Fordjour P, Afram IS, Oppong J Heliyon 04-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9649955
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11393
PMID:36387494
The Botanical, Chemical and Ethnobotanical Diversity of Southern African Lamiaceae Rattray RD, Van Wyk BE Molecules 18-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8233991
doi:10.3390/molecules26123712
PMID:34207006
Structure, composition and diversity of restored forest ecosystems on mine-spoils in South-Western Ghana Nero BF PLoS One 14-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8202926
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0252371
PMID:34125836
Anti-staphylococcal, anti-HIV and cytotoxicity studies of four South African medicinal plants and isolation of bioactive compounds from Cassine transvaalensis (Burtt. Davy) codd Mthethwa NS, Oyedeji BA, Obi LC, Aiyegoro OA BMC Complement Altern Med 18-Dec-2014
PMCID:PMC4320432
doi:10.1186/1472-6882-14-512
PMID:25522685
Massive structural and compositional changes over two decades in forest fragments near Kampala, Uganda Bulafu C, Baranga D, Mucunguzi P, Telford RJ, Vandvik V Ecol Evol 12-Sep-2013
PMCID:PMC3810876
doi:10.1002/ece3.747
PMID:24198941

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