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Mitragyna rubrostipulata
Mitragyna rubrostipulata is a tree indigenous to East Africa. It is native from Ethiopia through east-central tropical Africa (Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire) to Mozambique. It grows in wet forests up to 2,000 m above sea level and is abundant in swamp forests along Lake Victoria.
From the article Mitragyna rubrostipulata on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The tree is up to 20 m high, has a few large branches that forms a rounded crown. The bark is light grey brown, fairly rough and thick. The leaves are large, in opposite pairs, shiny above and widely oval. Flowers occur in round heads, 2.5 cm across, green-yellow-white with a sweet scent on 3–7 cm long stalks. The fruits in the head are capsules around 1 cm long, and contain a few tiny winged seeds.
At the table
The timber is fairly good and it is used for firewood, charcoal, timber, to make dug out canoes and for soil improvement.
Wikipedia: “Uses”
In medicine
Mitragyna rubrostipulata contains the alkaloids hirsuteine, mitraphylline, isomitraphylline, isorotundifoline, rotundifoline-N-oxide, isorhynchophylline, rhynchophylline-N-oxide, rhynchophylline, and rotundifoline.
Wikipedia: “Phytochemicals”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Mitragyna rubrostipulata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 789796.