Biodiversity & conservation

Plants and animals of Lango

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Least concern

Euphorbia candelabrum

The candelabra euphorbia is a tall tree-like succulent. Driberg wrote that in Lango the hollowed stem of this tree, called…

Not assessed

Sesamum indicum

Sesame, called semsem by the Lango, was one of the crops and an important source of oil. Driberg recorded that sesame oil was…

Vulnerable

Vitellaria paradoxa

The shea tree gives the nuts from which shea butter is made. Driberg found shea trees only in part of Lango: north and east of…