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Table 10: Important Wild Plant Species Used for Furniture in the Project Area Family Genus Species Tribe L / Name Use Annonaceae Anonidium mannii Becheve Etu-gweh For furniture and building Basho Mpoh Making chairs, tables, cupboards. Sapotaceae Baillonella toxisperma Boki Ogen Making of furniture, doors and windows. Apocynaceae Funtumia elastica Basho Nkoh For tables and beds Entandrophra angolense Becheve Atomoh For furniture Meliaceae gma Boki For furniture Basho Kensa Making chairs, tables, cupboards. Moraceae Milicia excelsa Becheve Ekoh For furniture and building Boki Kekwa-kepe Furniture and roofing Myristicaceae Pycnanthus angolensis Basho Ocha For tables Basho Ekpe Making chairs, tables, cupboards. Combretaceae Terminalia ivorensis Boki Kekangne Doors , windows, beds, roofing. Combretaceae Terminalia superba Basho Okah Making chairs, tables, cupboards. Loganiaceae Anthocleista vogelii Anyang Ekpa-mbe Drums crafobo1 Anyang Weiamba Drums crafobo2 Anyang Meno-ntonyi mortar pistles furniture Moraceae Milicia excelsa Anyang Geshea mortar pistles furniture Leguminosae- Papilionoideae Pterocarpus soyauxii Anyang Okpu To make village talking drums, canoes and paddles. 4.13.3 Fuelwood Energy for cooking in the project area is derived from the burning of wood. Though plant species are hardly discriminated in their use as fuelwood (table 12), some species are more preferred than others. Theses include Hylodendron gabonensis, Uapaca guineensis, Bridellia spp., Marcaranga spp., Calpocalyx dinklegii. Table 11: Preferred Feulwood Species in the Project Areas Family Genus Species Tribe Local Name Euphorbiaceae Bridelia micrantha Anyang Tampha Dichapetalaceae Dichapetalum sp. Ovande Sesekpe Dracaenaceae Dracaena arborea Anyang Ge-toto Basho Meshi-meshu Leguminosae- Hylodendron Gabunense Ovande Otorh Caesalpinioideae Anyang Uchei Irvingiaceae Irvingia Gabonensis Ovande Iweh Ochnaceae Lophira Alata Basho Untoh Apocynaceae Tabernaemontana Crassa Anyang Gatoh Basho Olorh Euphorbiaceae Uapaca guineensis Anyang Ulorh 4.13.4 Mortars and Pestles Table 12 shows the particulars of the wild plant species used in making mortars and pestles for domestic uses in the study areas. These are important cooking tools in all sites visited. Mortars are made from species like Pterocarpus sauyauxii, Vitex doniana, while species commonly used to make pestles are Masularia acuminata and Irvingia gabonensis. 36
Table 12: Wild Plant Species Used for Making Mortars and Pestles Family Genus Specie Tribe Local Name Use Leguminosae- Angylocalyx sp. Basho Fekwa - kwe Making of mortar pistles Papilionoideae edulis Basho Eseveh Making of mortar pistles Burseraceae Dacryodes sp. Basho Esveh Making of mortar pistles Anyang Oseh mortar pistles furniture Irvingiaceae Irvingia gabonensis Basho Mishi Making of mortar pistles Boki Kechi-ogep Making of mortar pistles Ochnaceae Lophira alata Ovande Ekwola Making of mortars. Rubiaceae Massularia acuminata Boki Odeng Making of mortar pistles Matmort3 Ovande Esesek-peh Making of mortar and pistles matmot1 Ovande Ekpa-ya-val Making of mortar and pistles matmot2 Ovande Ekil-leka Making of mortars. crafobo2 Anyang Meno-ntonyi Mortar pistles furniture Moraceae Milicia Excelsa Anyang Geshea Mortar pistles furniture Leguminosae- Pentacletra Macrophyla Anyang Genka Mortar and pistles Mimosoideae Leguminosae- Basho Fepuh Making of mortar and pistles Papilionoideae Pterocarpus Soyauxii Basho Fepuh Making of mortar pistles Verbenaceae Vitex Doniana Ovande Keflok Making of mortars. 4. 14 Wild Trees left on the Farms Subsistence agriculture is the main stay of the inhabitants of the Project Area. A piece of virgin forest is cleared, the trees felled with cutlasses and axes before burning or simply killed by setting fires to standing trees. Planting or hoeing immediately follows. The mode of preparation adopted at this stage depends upon the type of crops to be planted as well as the tribe. Burning and felling of trees during land preparation, to most inhabitants is an indispensable activity. The form of land preparation does not ensure natural soil improvement hence shifting cultivation is practiced, leading to constant movements from one forest patch to another, in search for fertile land. This is a major cause of deforestation within the project area. The local knowledge about the use of trees for soil improvement, erosion control or as feeds for livestock is very low. Trees are left in farms either because they are difficult to fell or have noted uses. However, unconsciously some leguminous trees are left in farms where they perform functions of natural soil fertility restoration by fixing atmospheric nitrogen. These include Albizia zygia, Distemonanthus benthamianus and Piptadeniastrum africanum. Trees are left to grow with food crops for one of the following reasons: Has medicinal value Trees with noted medicinal values like Annickia chlorantha, Entandrophragma candollei, Cylicodiscus gabonensis are often left in farms. 37
Page 1 and 2: ETHNOBOTANICAL SURVEY OF THE TAKAMA
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ABSTRACT....
Page 5 and 6: management and assessment of these
Page 7 and 8: 2.3 Semi-structure Interviews Prior
Page 9 and 10: Most of these streams and rivers em
Page 11 and 12: Hunting is a common activity of the
Page 13 and 14: Figure 3: Number of Non-medicinal P
Page 15 and 16: 16 14 Anyang Basho Becheve Number o
Page 17 and 18: Yellow Fever During the survey, it
Page 19 and 20: Alstonia boonei De Wild. A large tr
Page 21 and 22: Piper umbellatum Linn. It is a stro
Page 23 and 24: The use of poisons is detrimental b
Page 25 and 26: 4.6 Wild Plant Sources of Condiment
Page 27 and 28: Obtaining the seeds from the fruits
Page 29 and 30: vegobo2 Anyang Menyi-nembe In soup
Page 31 and 32: Description of Some Wild Plants Sou
Page 33 and 34: Obomush7 Anyang Datugeih Whole Mush
Page 35: Table 9: Species of Wild Plants Com
Page 39 and 40: Baskets and Back Packs Baskets are
Page 41 and 42: Dental Care Most inhabitants of the
Page 43 and 44: 31.5 31 30.5 Number of species 30 2
Page 45 and 46: 4.17.5 Cucurbitaceae Cucurbita maxi
Page 47 and 48: Coco nucifera (Palmae) It is a tree
Page 49 and 50: Picture 1: Participants at ethnobot
Page 51 and 52: Picture 3: A baby is washed in a ba
Page 53 and 54: Picture 5: Some important medicinal
Page 55 and 56: A B C D E F B Picture 7: The import
Page 57 and 58: Picture 9: Traditionally the walls
Page 59 and 60: Picture 11: An old man at Ingini ma
Page 61 and 62: Picture 13: Beds and house ceiling
Page 63 and 64: Picture 15: Several items including
Page 65 and 66: Picture 17: The fruits of Rothmanni
Page 67 and 68: Picture 19: Igbo-koko Colocasia esc
Page 69 and 70: Picture 21: Two of the Orchids spec
Page 71 and 72: BIBLIOGRAPHY Adjanohoun E. J.; Ake
Page 73 and 74: Baby Blood Aframomum alboriolaceum
Page 75 and 76: Pyrenacanthus vogeliana Ovande Wl C
Page 77 and 78: Acacia kamerunensis Anyang Genkpet
Page 79 and 80: Purge Purification Respirat ion Gou
Page 81 and 82: Stomac h Tabernaemont ana crassa An
Page 83 and 84: Yellow fever Basho Fesa-femoku Lvs
Page 85 and 86: Dioscorea sp. 3 Dioscoreaceae Diosc
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acuminata 3 lepidota 6 Cola sp. 1 S
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Nburnbas Mmiale NTFP and medicine G
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