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Monodora crispata is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to western and central Africa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone). Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler, the German botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its curled (crispatus in Latin) petal margins.
It has been observed growing in sandy soils in secondary rain forests and along streams, at elevations of 0–400 meters (0–1,312 ft).
It is grown as an ornamental tree. Its wood is used in construction and its seeds have aromatic qualities. There is emerging research about the leaf composition of this tree and other members of the Monodora group. Many close relatives have been researched and found to have medicinal properties, but Monodora crispata does not have many chemicals isolated from it yet. The newest isolated compound from these leaves is (-)-xylopinine.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Monodora crispata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
