Names: Ameraro; Amharic
Region: Africa, Guinea, Ethiopia.
Botany: shrub or small tree, 5 m high; leaves alternate or geminate, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, acute at the base, glabrous or slightly puberulous, up to 20 cm long and 10 cm wide, petiole about 3 cm long; fascicles many-flowered; teeth broadly triangular; corolla puberulous outside, white or yellowish, lobes nearly 1/2 as long as the tube, oblong, sub-obtuse; anthers oblong; ovary conical; style terete, hairy.
Content: majorly, hydrocarbons such as 1,4-diethyl benzene, 1,2-diethyl benzene, m-xylene; terpenoids including 1,8-cineole, geranic acid, dihydrocitronellol
LiteratureHiwot Ayalew, Solomon Tadesse, Daniel Bisrat, Peter Lindemann, Yitagesu Tewabe, Asrat Hailu, Kaleab Asres; Chemical composition and in vitro antileishmanial activity of essential oil of the leaves of Discopodium pennnervium Hochst; Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Journal, Vol 34, No 2; 2018.
Mohammedbrhan Abdulwuhab & others;Investigation of the Antidiarrheal and Antimicrobial Activities of 80% Methanolic Leaf Extract of Discopodium Penninervum;
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative
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Volume 2018, Article ID 1360486; doi.org/10.1155/2018/1360486.