Plant Details

Accepted name:

Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC. [Combretaceae]

Source of taxonomy and confidence:

World Checklist: unpublished records ( )

Information about this plant:

Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
/gab	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
amangwe	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
amangwe amphlope	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
amangwe-amhlophe	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
assegai wood	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
bloubos	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
bosvaalbos	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
chijuju	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
clusterleaf	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
cunona	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
g/aba	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
geelhout	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
geelhout(boom)	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
geelhoutboom	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
gelbholz	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
ghushosho	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
gonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
g\|ba	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
ikonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
kaselenge	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
konono	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
m konono	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
mangwe	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mbuko	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mhungweluwala	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
mihonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
miputua	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mogonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mogunono	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
mogônônô	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mohonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mokonona	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
mokuba	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
moshosho	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mososo	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
moumba	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
moxonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mpata	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mpululu	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
msima	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
msimira	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
msinira	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mtanga	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mufunji	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mugoro	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mugosi	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
muhonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
muhorono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mukonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mulilankonko	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
munyaga	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mupululu	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mushosho	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mushosho [fruit]	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
musunu	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
mususu	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015) SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mutabvu	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
muxonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
mzima	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
namasimba	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
namatipo	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
ndjao	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
nkonola	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
nkonolo/nkonola/nkohono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
nkonono	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
nkunona	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
nyakafunji	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
nzima	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omoro	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omugolo	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omuola	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omuolo	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omuseasetu	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omuseyasetu	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omwoolo	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omyoolo	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
omyoolo (pl.)	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
sandgeelhout	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
sandheelhout	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
sandvaalboom	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
sandvaalbos	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
si ver cluster leaf	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
silver cluster-leaf	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015) SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
silver terminalia	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
silwerboom	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
tcere	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
transvaal silver-leaf	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
umangwe	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
umhonono	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
umkhonono.	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)
vaalboom	Other	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
vaalbos	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
wild quince	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
yellow wood	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
za'o	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
zau	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
\|gaab	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
\|gaab/-i	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
\|gaaßa	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
\|oaßa	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)
\|uba	Other	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Roots:leaves:bark		Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015)
root, leaf		African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

synonym
Myrobalanus brosogiana (Engl. & Diels) Kuntze Deutsche Bot. Monatsschr. 21: 173 (1903).
Myrobalanus sericea (Burch. ex DC.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 237 (1891).
Terminalia angolensis O.Hoffm. Linnaea 43: 131 (1881).
Terminalia brosigiana Engl. & Diels Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2: 191 (1898).
Terminalia bubu De Wild. & Ledoux Contr. Fl. Katanga, Suppl. 2: 84 (1929).
Terminalia fischeri Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 294 (1895).
Terminalia nyassensis Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 294 (1895).
Terminalia sericea var. angolensis Hiern Cat. Afr. Pl. 1: 338 (1898).
Terminalia sericea var. huillensis Hiern Cat. Afr. Pl. 1: 339 (1898).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Terminalia sericea Burch.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC.	African Herbal Pharmacopoeia 1st edn. (2010) Commercially Important African Med. Plants (Van Wyk, 2015) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC., non Cambess.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S. Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Terminalia sericea Burchel	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Terminalia sericea DC.	SEPASAL database (Kew, 1999)

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