''Combretum leprosum'', the mofumbo in Portuguese and the asucaró in eastern Bolivian Spanish, is a plant species in the genus ''
Combretum
''Combretum'', the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combretaceae. The genus comprises about 272 species of trees and shrubs, most of which are native to tropical and southern Africa, about 5 to Madagascar, but th ...
'' found throughout the
Amazon Basin.
This plant contains
combretastatin A-4.
In many areas of the eastern Bolivian countryside, people have traditionally maintained specimens of these trees and encouraged their proliferation because they are perceived to be useful providers of shade.
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leprosum
Flora of Brazil
Plants described in 1841
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