Securidaca acuminata A.St.-Hil.
Securidaca acuminata A.St.-Hil.
Securidaca acuminata A.St.-Hil.
Securidaca acuminata A.St.-Hil.
| Botanical Name | Securidaca acuminata A.St.-Hil. |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Polygalaceae |
| Genus: | Securidaca L. |
| Species: | S. acuminata |
| Common Names: | Securidaca acuminata |
Plant Synonyms
Elsota Adans
Plant Local Names
Hausa Name: Uwar Magunguna
Yoruba Name: Ipeta
Plant Habitat
Open savannah, woodland
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Plant Description
Common small tree or shrub in savannah country, readily recognized by its brilliant purple (occasionally white) flowers and by the dry wrinkled fruits ending in a broad flat wing about 5cm long.
Tree: Up to 9.14m high with a twisted bole or a shrub with slender erect branches.
Leaves: shortly stalked up to about 6.35cm long by about 2cm broad, long-elliptic, rounded at apex, cuneate at base.
Flowers: (Feb- May) purple in loose terminal racemes at the ends of leafy shots, 5- 8cm long stalks about 64mm long, 5 free sepals.
Fruits: Often seen with the flowers and persisting well into the raining season at first purplish but drying to pale yellow, containing one round seed in a wrinkled case about 2cm across (California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. 1996)
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i. In small doses it is a purgative, fresh root pounded with native natron and butter
ii. Used internally for syphilis and to purge out any serious complaint with abdominal symptoms.
iii. Simply powdered and taken with salt or natron as a stomachic.
iv. Also the root along with Datura metel, onions and groundnut oil, makes a remedy to be rubbed on the body for rheumatic pains.
v. The powdered root is also taken as snuff for the stimulating effect resulting in sneezing, for stimulant to prevent night sleep (Medicinal plants of Nigeria, 2006)
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