Plant Species List

ID No. Species name Family Common Name Local Name Compound
NMP-202 Vitex simplicifolia Lamiaceae Bush Vitex, Simple-leaved Chaste Tree Dinyar Biri (Hausa, Nigeria), Orere (Yoruba, Nigeria), Ọkụkụ (Igbo, Nigeria) 17
NMP-285 Vernonia glaberrima Asteraceae - Shiwakaar, shiwaakar-jan-ga gari(Hausa) 1
NMP-284 Vernonia ambigua Asteraceae Iron weed Taba-Taba, (Hausa, Nigeria), Orungo (Yoruba, Nigeria), 1
NMP-283 Vernonia perrottetii Asteraceae - Burzu (Hausa, Nigeria), Segini (Mandinka/Bambara, Senegal), Dattal (Fula/Pulaar, Gambia), Eata-silo, Silli (Mandinka, Gambia), Bachigehi (Gwari, Nigeria) 3
NMP-282 Vernonia blumeoides Asteraceae - - 31
NMP-228 Vitex altissima. Lamiaceae Peacock chaste tree - 3
NMP-213 Vitex grandifolia Lamiaceae Black plum, chocolate berry tree, Efo oriri (Yoruba, Nigeria) 2
NMP-195 Vitex doniana Verbenaceae Black Plum, African Olive, Dinya Oori-nla (Yoruba, Nigeria), Uchakoro (Igbo, Nigeria), Makwaiwa, ,Burzun dinya, Dinya (Hausa, Nigeria), Galbihi (Fulani, Nigeria), Mfudu (Swahili, East Africa) 11
NMP-194 Vernonia colorata Compositae Bitter Tree, Sweet Bitter Leaf, Ironweed Eriro-Ijebu (Yoruba, Nigeria), Ndoleh (Cameroon), Gbolo (Ewe, Ghana), Mululuza (Luganda, Uganda) 7
NMP-193 Vernonia cinerea Compositae Purple Fleabane, Little Ironweed, Ash-Colored Fleabane, Sahadevi Bojure (Yoruba, Nigeria), Ewe-Oghan (Edo, Nigeria), Kalajira (Bengali, India), Kuksim (Mizo, India), Naat (Thai) 4
NMP-192 Vernonia amygdalina Compositae Bitter Leaf, African Bitter Leaf, Ironweed Ewuro (Yoruba, Nigeria), Onugbu (Igbo, Nigeria), Shiwaka (Hausa, Nigeria), Olubu (Edo, Nigeria), Grawa (Amharic, Ethiopia), Etidot (Efik, Nigeria) 23