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Aganope gabonica

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Baillon) Polhill

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cameroon
• Congo
• Eqyatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Rain forest
• flooded forest
• river islet

Flowering Times

• Dec (Equatorial Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Feb (Gabon)

Perennial climbing or prostrate shrub to 40m with brown ridged branches. 7- 11 foliolate leaves to 250mm long, leaflets to 70mm x 40mm. Axillary panicles or racemes to 750mm long, white or pinkish flowers, villous purple calyx with 5 teeth, white corolla. Orange pods

Further References

• ILDIS
• The Plant List 2
• FOL
• CJB
• Adansonia
• Mobot