Taxon: Strophanthus sarmentosus DC.

• the 50 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Strophanthus sarmentosus var. glabriflorus (no accessions)
• Strophanthus sarmentosus var. sarmentosus (no accessions)

Common names:

• arrow-poison   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• poison arrowvine   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• spider-tresses   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Use Pl WT Afr; F ChinaEng; CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Use Pl WT Afr)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Strophanthus sarmentosus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad
  East Tropical Africa: Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola

• also cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Brenan, J. P. M. & P. J. Greenway. 1949. Check-lists of the forest trees and shrubs of the British empire, No. 5, Tanganyika territory, Part II.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith. 2008. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Pichon, M. 1953. Mém Inst. Franç. Afrique Noire 35:64.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Strophanthus sarmentosus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Strophanthus sarmentosus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Strophanthus sarmentosus.

Synonyms:

• Strophanthus glabriflorus (Monach.) Monach. [≡ Strophanthus sarmentosus var. glabriflorus]
  

Check other web resources for Strophanthus sarmentosus DC.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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