Combretaceae FAMILY

Terminalia stenostachya

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

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 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. , 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. ]. The bark is used locally as a snuff.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

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

HabitatBrachystegia 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. ].