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Trichilia
Sign in to saveTrichilia is a flowering plant genus in the mahogany family. These plants are particularly diverse in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America.
Species
Kōhūhū
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSapindales
- FamilyMeliaceae
Common Name: muruvillo
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5,330
- With media
- 1,494
- Family
- Meliaceae
- Collections
- CICY, ECOSUR
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Trichilia is a flowering plant genus in the mahogany family. These plants are particularly diverse in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America.
Several species are used in folk medicine and shamanism – e.g. T. rubescens against malaria, T. tocacheana as a hallucinogen, and T. catigua in the aphrodisiac and stimulant catuaba. T. emetica wood, also known as Natal mahogany or Cape mahogany is the traditional material of choice for Mozambique's famous psikhelekedana miniature artists. Trichilia dregeana, or forest mahogany also yields timber and is also used in carvings, traditional African musical instruments, household implements, furniture, bats and canoes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trichilia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.