Icacina mannii
Icacinaceae FAMILY

Icacina mannii

Icacina mannii

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Icacina mannii is a scandent or straggling shrub, or liane; it can produce stems 1.5 - 6 metres tall, growing from a large, underground tuber[ 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 plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical
Native RangeTropical Africa - Sierra Leone to Cameroon and DR Congo, south to Angola.
HabitatEvergreen forest, swamp and gallery forests, forest clearings; at elevations from 5 - 1,200 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. ].