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Agelaea paradoxa

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

Gilg

Common Names

• Anamjenje (Kibila)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• rain forest
• savanna edge
• disturbed forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (Cameroon)
• Jul (Zaire)
• Feb-Dec (Gabon)
• Sep (Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Mar (Cameroon)
• Jul (Zaire)
• Jun-Aug (Gabon)
• Mar-Jul (Guinea)

Scrambling shrub or liane to 40m or tree with puberulous branchlets. Trifoliolate glabrous leaves, terminal leaflet to 260mm x 130mm. Axillary & terminal inflorescences to 150mm long. Perfumed creamy white flowers, sepals 2mm x 1mm, velvety outside, glabrous petals to 5mm x 1.5mm. Knobbly orange-red fruit to 45mm x 28mm.

Leaf provides food

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• BJS
• AUWP
• The Plant List 2