Traditional uses, phytochemicals, and biological properties of .

The fruit of is respectively known among local folks in Ghana, Senegal, and Burkina Faso as , and . The plant has been used traditionally, ethnobotanically, and medicinally in most West African countries. The phytochemicals that have been discovered in various extracts of parts include alkaloids, coumarins, anthracene glycosides, anthocyanosides, anthocyanins, coumarins, flavonoids, saponins, saponin glycosides, sterols, condensed tannins, tannins, triterpenes, and triterpenoids.