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Useful Tropical Plants

Terminalia stenostachya

Engl. & Diels

Combretaceae

+ Synonyms

Terminalia dielsii Engl.

Terminalia mangela De Wild. & Ledoux

Terminalia rhodesica R.E.Fr.

Terminalia splendida Engl. & Diels

Terminalia verdickii De Wild. & Ledoux

Common Name:

Terminalia stenostachya
Flowering branch
Photograph by: Günter Baumann; African plants - A Photo Guide
© Günter Baumann
Terminalia stenostachya Terminalia stenostachya Terminalia stenostachya

General Information

Terminalia stenostachya is a deciduous or semideciduous shrub growing up to 4 metres tall; or a tree with a rounded or flat-rounded crown; it can grow 5 - 12 metres tall, occasionally to 20 metres[
308
Title
Flora Zambesiaca
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Author
 
Website
http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html
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0
ISBN
 
Description
An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants.
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328
Title
African Flowering Plants Database
Publication
 
Author
 
Website
http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php
Publisher
Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques.
Year
0
ISBN
 
Description
Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
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The bark is used locally as a snuff.

Known Hazards

None known

Botanical References

308
Title
Flora Zambesiaca
Publication
 
Author
 
Website
http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html
Publisher
 
Year
0
ISBN
 
Description
An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants.

Range

Southern tropical Africa - DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.

Habitat

Brachystegia woodland and wooded grassland; dry tree savannah with Acacia nigrescens; lake basin chipya; Acacia-Combretum-Terminalia savannah; scrub mopane; on heavy soils such as rich red soils and clay soils; at elevations of 450 - 1,400 metres[
328
Title
African Flowering Plants Database
Publication
 
Author
 
Website
http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php
Publisher
Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques.
Year
0
ISBN
 
Description
Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
].

Properties

Other Uses Rating *
HabitSemi-deciduous Tree
Height7.00 m
Cultivation StatusWild

Cultivation Details


Found on heavier soils in the wild[
328
Title
African Flowering Plants Database
Publication
 
Author
 
Website
http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php
Publisher
Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques.
Year
0
ISBN
 
Description
Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map.
].

Edible Uses

None known

Medicinal

None known

Other Uses

The powdered bark is used as a snuff[
46
Title
Dictionary of Economic Plants.
Publication
 
Author
Uphof. J. C. Th.
Publisher
Weinheim
Year
1959
ISBN
-
Description
An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader.
].

Propagation

Seed -
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