Yoruba plant name

Akú Malapa

Akú Malapa is a Yoruba name for Vitellaria paradoxa, recorded in Barkin Ladi, Bassa, Bokkos, Jos North, Jos South, Kanam, Mangu, Pankshin, Qua'an Pan and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria.

The record

• Vitellaria paradoxa

  Name as published

  akú malapa

  Language

  Yoruba

  Botanical name as published

  Vitellaria paradoxa Gaertn. (Butyrospermum paradoxum)

  Parts reported

  stem bark

  Where recorded

  Barkin Ladi, Bassa, Bokkos, Jos North, Jos South, Kanam, Mangu, Pankshin, Qua'an Pan and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria

  Source

  Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used in the treatment of animal diarrhoea in Plateau State, Nigeria — Table 1, row 56

  Scope used

  Sanko uses this survey for its published name mapping and reported plant parts only. The subject the survey investigated is not a therapeutic claim about this plant.

  Verification

  Taxonomy checked against GBIF. Not reviewed by a botanist, language reviewer or practitioner.

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