Xylopia acutiflora (Dunal.) A. Rich is a small tree that grows up to 15 m high, it belongs to the Annonaceae family.
| Xylopia acutiflora | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Magnoliales |
| Family: | Annonaceae |
| Genus: | Xylopia |
| Species: | X. acutiflora
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| Binomial name | |
| Xylopia acutiflora A. Richard
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| Synonyms | |
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Unona acutiflora Dunal Coelocline acutiflora (Dunal) Xylopicrum acutiflorum (Dunal) K Unona oxypetala Candolle ex Dunal Coelocline? oxypetala (Candolle ex Dunal) Xylopia oxypetala (Candolle ex Dunal) | |
Description edit
Brown pubescent twigs mixed with erect and short hairs. Leaf blades chartaceous, concolorous - slightly discolorous, elliptic - elliptic-lanceolate, larger blades, 5.3 - 11.7 cm long and 2.3 - 4.3 cm wide; acute to acuminate at apex and cuneate at base. Flowers are solitary[1] Fruit green - reddish tinged exterior, scarlet endocarp, up to born on a pedicel. Seed, ovate- ellipsoid, monocarps have two rows of seed.[1]
Distribution edit
Native to West Africa, found in lowland forests.[2]
Uses edit
In Ghana and among the Ehotile people of Akanland, root extracts from the species is used as a sexual stimulant and as a chewing stick.[3] Seeds are crushed and used as spice, wood obtained are used as material to make canoe paddles, spears or bows.
References edit
- ^ a b Johnson, David M.; Murray, Nancy A. (2018-04-24). "A revision of Xylopia L. (Annonaceae): the species of Tropical Africa". PhytoKeys (97): 1–252. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.97.20975. ISSN 1314-2003.
- ^ Hasan, Choudhury M.; Healey, Terence M.; Waterman, Peter G. (1985). "Acutifloric acid: A diterpene dimer from the stem bark of Xylopia acutiflora". Phytochemistry. 24 (1): 192–194. Bibcode:1985PChem..24..192H. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)80841-9.
- ^ Malan, Djah F; Neuba, Danho F R; Kouakou, Kouakou L (2015). "Medicinal plants and traditional healing practices in ehotile people, around the aby lagoon (eastern littoral of Côte d'Ivoire)". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 11 (1): 21. doi:10.1186/s13002-015-0004-8. ISSN 1746-4269. PMC 4391329. PMID 25888765.