Yoruba plant name

Pako Dudu

Pako Dudu is a Yoruba name for Terminalia leiocarpa, recorded in Barkin Ladi, Bassa, Bokkos, Jos North, Jos South, Kanam, Mangu, Pankshin, Qua'an Pan and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria.

The record

• Terminalia leiocarpa

  Name as published

  Pako dudu

  Language

  Yoruba

  Botanical name as published

  Anogeissus leiocarpus

  Parts reported

  leaves, stem bark and seeds

  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 6

  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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