IDENTIFICATION OF TRECULIA AFRICANA DECUE AS A MEDICINAL PLANT


(a) IDENTIFICATION
Local name: (Igbo):   Ukwa.
Common name:  Afican bread fruit Botanical name: Treculia  africana
Family :                    Moraceae.
Habitat:                    Rainforest.    
  
(b) MORPHOLOGY
Habit:  It is a herbaceous plant of about 2.3m tall leaves are simple
and radial in arrangement, pinnate, broad and articulately venated, sheathing base. Flowers are in form of spasdix, substended by a large often brightly coloured spathe. These flowers are sessile, small, naked, monoecious and protogynous. Stamens are six arranged in whorl with a synadrium filament very short, anthers 2-celled, carpels 3, cannate the ovary is superivor. The fruit is a berry and the seeds are non-endospermous.    

(c) UTILIZATION
The decoction of the bark is drunk to cure cough and also be sued as a laxative. In the male tree, the sap is known to be caustic and toxic. The seeds are edible and are good source of vitamin C.

(d) CONSERVATION
It is a tree plant that is cultivated in the rainforest.

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