Premna schimperi (Bekele-Tesemma, 2007)

← Pouteria altissima

Bekele-Tesemma, Useful trees and shrubs for Ethiopia, 2007 Premna schimperi (Bekele-Tesemma, 2007)

Prosopis juliflora →

Premna schimperi Verbenaceae Indigenous

Common names

• English:
• Afargna:
• Agewgna:
• Agnuakgna:
• Amargna: Chocho
• Bertagna:
• Borenagna:
• Gamogna:
• Gimirigna: Taitos
• Gumuzgna:
• Guragigna:
• Haderigna:
• Kefgna: Tumo
• Kembatgna:
• Konsogna:
• Mejengrgna:
• Nuyergna:
• Oromugna: Hadad, Hurgessa, Urgessa
• Sahogna:
• Shinashgna:
• Sidamigna: Tulanji
• Somaligna:
• Tigrigna:
• Wolaytgna:

Ecology

Occurs in dry bushland with Acacia, Carissa, Euclea, Myrica, Maytenus and Otostegia and at margins of Podocarpus forests. It also grows in degraded and secondary forests and occurs in Tigray, Gonder, Gojam, Wolega, Shoa, Harerge, Arsi, Sidamo, and Kefa regions in Dry and Moist Weyna Dega agroclimatic zones, 1,300–2,300 m.

Uses

Firewood, charcoal, medicine (leaves), fencing material (cut branches).

Description

A small spreading shrub or tree to 5–7 m. Young branchlets densely hairy.

• LEAVES: Opposite, simple, the edge toothed, broadly ovate, yellow-green above, pale beneath, aromatic, up to 14 x 12 cm, hairy, especially beneath, stalk to 3 cm long, densely hairy.
• FLOWERS: Green-white, very small but numerous, on a branched head to 8 cm long, each flower tubular, swollen at the base.
• FRUIT: Round, green and ripening black, thinly fleshy and held in the calyx cup, to 8 mm diameter, the stone containing 4 seeds.

Propagation

Seedlings.

Seed

• Treatment: Not necessary.
• Storage: Can be stored.

Management

Coppicing.

Remarks

Cut branches are used as fencing around homesteads.