Ricinodendron
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Ricinodendron is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1864.[4][5] It includes only one known species, Ricinodendron heudelotii, native to tropical Africa from Senegal + Liberia east to Sudan and Tanzania and south to Mozambique and Angola.[3] It produces an economically important oilseed. The tree is known as munguella (Angola), njangsa (Cameroon), bofeko (Democratic Republic of Congo), wama (Ghana), okhuen (Nigeria), kishongo (Uganda), akpi (Ivory Coast), djansang, essang, ezezang and njasang. Two varieties of the tree species are recognized R. heudelotii var. heudelotii in Ghana and R. heudelotii var. africanum in Nigeria and westwards.
Ricinodendron | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
Subfamily: | Crotonoideae |
Tribe: | Ricinodendreae |
Genus: | Ricinodendron Müll. Arg. |
Species: | R. heudelotii |
Binomial name | |
Ricinodendron heudelotii | |
Subspecies and varieties | |
Synonyms[3] | |
Ricinodendron heudelotii subsp. heudelotii[2] |