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Botanical record

Ceiba pentandra

Ceiba pentandra is recorded under 1 local name in the published Nigerian ethnobotanical literature Sanko has mapped, across ijc.

Accepted botanical name
Ceiba pentandra
Names as published
Ceiba pentandra (L).
Common English
Cotton tree
GBIF taxonomy
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Local names recorded for Ceiba pentandra

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.

Local nameLanguageWhere recordedSource
Asisaye ijc Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Ethnobotanical survey and conservation of the indigenous plants used for traditional orthopedic care practices in Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Nigeria — Table 2, row 8