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Triphyophyllum is a genus with one species, T. peltatum, a rare tropical West African climbing vine that can reach very great heights in rainforest and is also facultatively carnivorous. It is very hard to grow and is seldom cultivated outside botanical gardens.
Triphyophyllum peltatum is a facultatively carnivorous, up to 60 m (200 ft) tall vine in the monotypic genus Triphyophyllum in the family Dioncophyllaceae native to tropical western Africa, in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone where it grows in tropical rainforest.
Triphyophylum peltatum is difficult to cultivate. It is cultivated in several botanical gardens: Würzburg, Hannover, Abidjan, Bonn, Cambridge University and is exceedingly rare in private collections.
Triphyophyllum is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, where it occurs in primary and old secondary dry evergreen rainforests. The habitat has a 6–7 month dry season. The acid, nutrient-poor soil is shallow.
Triphyophyllum peltatum is traditionally used in folk medicine in the treatment of elephantiasis and malaria. It produces many pharmaceutically active secondary metabolites, some of which have been found to have strong antiplasmodial activity. Some metabolites were found to have antitumoral and anti-multiple myeloma activity. The stems are used as tying material.
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