Yoruba plant name

Kankan Ayaba

Kankan Ayaba is a Yoruba name for Luffa aegyptiaca, recorded in Alimosho, Badagry, Eti-Osa, Ijebu and Imota, Lagos State, Nigeria.

The record

• Luffa aegyptiaca

  Name as published

  Kankan ayaba

  Language

  Yoruba

  Botanical name as published

  Luffa cylindrica (L.) M.Roem.

  Parts reported

  leaf and stem

  Where recorded

  Alimosho, Badagry, Eti-Osa, Ijebu and Imota, Lagos State, Nigeria

  Source

  Ethnobotanical Survey of Local Flora Used for Medicinal Purposes among Indigenous People in Five Areas in Lagos State, Nigeria — Supplementary Table S1, row 105

  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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