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Botanical record

Cola nitida

Cola nitida is recorded under 1 local name in the published Nigerian ethnobotanical literature Sanko has mapped, across ikw.

Accepted botanical name
Cola nitida
Names as published
Cola nitida and Cola nitida (Vent) Schott and Endl.
Common English
Kola Nut and Kola Nut Skin
Parts reported
bark
GBIF taxonomy
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Local names recorded for Cola nitida

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
Eji ikw all local government areas of Rivers State, Rivers State, Nigeria Ethno medicinal survey of plants used by the indigenes of Rivers State of Nigeria — Table 1, row 172