Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth. Bignoniaceae
Bignonia africana Lam.; Crescentia pinnata Jacq.; Kigelia abyssinica A. Rich.; Kigelia acutifolia Engl. ex Spreng.; Kigelia aethiopica Decne.; Kigelia aethiopicum (Febzl) Dandy; Kigelia elliottii Sprague; Kigelia elliptica Sprague; Kigelia impressa Spragu
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Synonyms Bignonia africana Lam.; Crescentia pinnata Jacq.; Kigelia abyssinica A. Rich.; Kigelia acutifolia Engl. ex Spreng.; Kigelia aethiopica Decne.; Kigelia aethiopicum (Febzl) Dandy; Kigelia elliottii Sprague; Kigelia elliptica Sprague; Kigelia impressa Sprague; Kigelia pinnata (Jacq.) DC.; Kigelia spragueana Wernham; Kigelia talbotii Hutch. & Dalziel; Kigelia tristis A. Chev.; Sotor aethiopicum Fenzl; Tanaecium pinnatum (Jacq.) Willd.
Local Names Kigelia africana: Kikuyu: Kiratina, Muratina; Taita: Mwasina, Masina, Mvopngnia; Lhuya: Mnikya, Murabe, Morabe; Luganda: Mussa; Meru: Murantina; Maa: Ol-Sunguroi, Ol-Darpoi; Luo: Yago; Boni: Shelolo; Ilelewa: Mobwoka; Kamba: Muatine, Kiatine; Giriama: Muratina; Kipsigis: Ratuinet; Marakwet: Rotio; Nandi: Ratinuet; Oromo: Bogh; Pokot: Rotin; Rendile: Muun; R. W. Bussmann (*) Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia e-mail: [email protected] N. Y. Paniagua-Zambrana Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia G. N. Njoroge Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agricultura and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 R. W. Bussmann (ed.), Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa, Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77086-4_97-1
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Samburu: Imombi; Somali: Bukorola; Taveta: Mukisha; Turkana: Edot (Beentje 1994, Gachati 1989, Kokwaro 2009); English: Sausage tree, Cucumber tree; Swahili: Mvungunya, Mwegea, Mwicha, Mranaa
Botany and Ecology Kigelia africana (Lam.) Benth.: Tree often with wide spreading crown, 2.5–18 (–24) m tall and possibly larger. Bark usually gray, occasionally brown, smooth to rough or ridged, scaly or flaking. Leaves opposite or ternate. Leaflets thin to very coriaceous, (2–)3–8-jugate, oblong, elliptic, ovate or obovate, (6–)10–20(– 30) (4–)6–13(–16) cm, acute to cuneate or rounded, truncate, or emarginate at the base, entire to serrate (particularly sucker shoots), rounded, obtuse or acute to distinctly acuminate at the apex, glabrous to pubescent or tomentellous, smooth or often slightly to very scabrid with raised pale dots, peltate and punctate glands sometimes present; venation plane or sometimes raised or impressed, with 7–12 pairs of veins. Flowers said to smell unpleasant, in lax terminal hanging panicles 30– 80(–150) cm long including peduncle up to 40 cm long. Bracts lanceolate, 1 cm long. Individual cymes 1–3-flowered. Pedicels hooked, 1–4(–5) cm long. Calyx campanulate, 2–5 cm long, 2-lipped, irregularly lobed, the lobes about 1 cm long, tomentose to glabrous, with scattered glands. Corolla at first with tube yellow outside, turning orange or red and with dark red to blackish inside, 3–9 cm long, cylindrical at base for a very variab
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