Yoruba plant name

Igbale Odan

Igbale Odan is a Yoruba name for Schwenckia americana, recorded in Barkin Ladi, Bassa, Bokkos, Jos North, Jos South, Kanam, Mangu, Pankshin, Qua'an Pan and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria.

The record

• Schwenckia americana

  Name as published

  Igbale odan

  Language

  Yoruba

  Botanical name as published

  Schwenkia americana

  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 44

  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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