Toddalia asiatica (L.) Lam. Rutaceae
Toddalia asiatica (L.) Lam.: Aralia labordei H. Lév., Paullinia asiatica L., Toddalia aculeata Pers., Toddalia angustifolia Lam., Toddalia asiatica var. floribunda (Wall.) Kurz, Toddalia asiatica var. gracilis Gamble, Toddalia asiatica var. obtusifolia Ga
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Synonyms Toddalia asiatica (L.) Lam.: Aralia labordei H. Lév., Paullinia asiatica L., Toddalia aculeata Pers., Toddalia angustifolia Lam., Toddalia asiatica var. floribunda (Wall.) Kurz, Toddalia asiatica var. gracilis Gamble, Toddalia asiatica var. obtusifolia Gamble, Toddalia floribunda Wall., Toddalia rubricaulis Roem. & Schult., Toddalia tonkinensis Gauillaumin, Zanthoxylum asiaticum (L.) Applehans, Groppo & J. Wen.
Local Names Toddalia asiatica: Kikuyu: Mururue; Digo: Kikombe-Cha-Chui; Kamba: Maluia; Kipsigit: Chepindorwet; Luhya: Luabare; Luo: Ajua, Nayaluet-Kwach; Maa: Ole-Pormunyo, Ole-Barmonyo; Marakwet: Kipkeres; Kipkutai; Meru: Mukongura; Nandi: Usuet; Ndorobo: Womboriot; Sanya: Kikucha; Samburu: Llaramunyo; Tugen: Katemwe; Turkana: Etokebengu; Swahili: Mdakakomba (Beentje 1994; Gachati 1989; Kokwaro 2009) 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, 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_159-1
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Botany and Ecology Toddalia asiatica (L.) Lam.: A scrambling or climbing, retrorsely aculeolate shrub; young branches minutely rusty pubescent or glabrescent. Branches with small recurved prickles. Leaves 3-foliolate, petiole grooved above, leaflet Inflorescence ferruginous-pubescent; bracts linear, 0.8–1.3 mm. long, caducous. Leaflets sessile, elliptic or obovate or oblanceolate, 3–8 cm. long, 1.3–3 cm. wide, acuminate or obtuse at the apex, entire or slightly crenulate; midrib prominent and occasionally aculeolate on the lower surface; lateral nerves numerous but not raised; conspicuously glandular on both surfaces; petiole 1–4 cm. long, grooved above and persistently pubescent in the groove, sometimes aculeolate. Calyx small, with 5 acute lobes. Flowers usually in cymose clusters on the panicle branches, unisexual by abortion; pedicels 1–3 mm. long. Seeds 3–4 mm. long, dark brown, smooth. Male flowers with ovate anthers 1 mm. long; rudimentary ovary glabrous, with a long 5-ribbed style. Petals triangular-lanceolate, about 2.5 mm. long, yellow. Fruit 7– 10 mm. across, orange when ripe. Female flowers with a very short style and 3–5lobed stigma; 5 staminodes present (Kokwaro 1982). Frequently collected especially in Northern Kenya (Delbanco et al. 2017). Characteristic for disturbed Afromontane forests (Bussmann 2002) (Figs. 1 and 2).
Local Medicinal Uses Toddalia asiatica: The fruit is chewed for cough, the root decoction is used as emetic and pur
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