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General Information

Efulensia clematoides is a climbing plant producing stems up to 40 metres long and 5cm in diameter. These climb into the surrounding vegetation, supporting themselves by means of tendrils[, ].
The plant is harvested from the wild for local medicinal use.

Known Hazards

A concentrated root decoction is used to produce an arrow poison[].

Botanical References

Range

Tropical Africa - Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, DR Congo.

Habitat

Rain forest and marshy forest at elevations up to 800 metres[]. Often also found in secondary forest and forest margins[].

Properties

Edibility Rating
Medicinal Rating
Habit	Climber
Height	30.00 m
Cultivation Status	Wild

Cultivation Details

The flowers are generally bisexual, but can be functionally male[, ].

Edible Uses

Leaves - cooked and eaten as a vegetable, mainly for their supposed medicinal virtues[].

Medicinal

The leaves are cooked as a vegetable and eaten with meat or fish for their supposed beneficial action upon the liver and for treating enlarged spleens[, ].

Some saponins are present in the bark and roots[].
Hydrocyanic acid is abundant in the roots, and traces of it occur in the bark[].
The plant contains the cyanohydrin glycosides barterin (tetraphyllin B) and deidaclin[].

Other Uses

None known

Propagation

Seed -

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