page_title: Saba senegalensis
section_title: Common names
hierarchical_section_title: Saba senegalensis / Common names
caption_attribution_description: Saba senegalensis
context_page_description: Saba senegalensis known as weda in the Moore, French, and English languages, is a fruit producing plant of the Apocynaceae family, native to the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. It has several common names in various West African Languages. The tree grows predominantly on riverbanks and in woodlands in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Somalia, Mali and Ivory Coast. It has been observed growing as vine up trees, as a small erect shrub, and oftentimes growing to the size of a large tree.
  ICRISAT has cited S. senegalensis as a useful food crop plant and as a tool to combat soil degradation in rural Africa.
context_section_description: In the Moore language: "Weda"
  In the Wolof language: "Madd"
  In Gambian Wolof: "Kabaa"
  In the Bambara language: "Zaban"
  In the French language: "Liane saba"
  In Côte d'Ivoire: "saba"
  In Sierra Leone Krio: "Malombo"
  In the Congo basin:  "Malombo" or "Makalakonki"
  In Casamance, Senegal. Joola language: "Kuguissai"
caption: S. senegalensis flowers
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