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Agelaea pentagyna

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

(Lamarck) Baillon

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Igoemkanza (Kipare)
• Vahindebaka
• Vahimainty
• Ekundyakoda (Teturi)
• Ekeka (Bambindjere)
• Amanjenje (Zaire)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Comoros
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• semideciduous & coastal forest
• montane areas
• riverine forest
• edge of mangrove swamp
• seasonally inundated forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Nov (Cameroon)
• Feb-Mar (Central African Republic)
• Aug (Equatorial Guinea)
• Feb-Dec (Gabon)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Nov (Cameroon)
• Feb-Aug (Central African Republic)
• Apr-May (Zaire)
• Dec (Equatorial Guinea)
• Feb-Dec (Gabon)

Shrub, small tree or small woody glabrescent twining liane to 25m with glabrous or slightly downy branchlets. Leaves with 3 coriaceous leaflets, terminal leaflet to 260mm x 190mm glabrous above, glabrous or slightly rusty downy beneath. Scented green or creamy white flowers in axillary & terminal panicles to 300mm long x 150mm with minute downy bracts to 12mm long, petals white to 6mm long, densely downy calyx to 4mm long, petals to 4mm long x 1mm. Densely rusty-pubescent curved orange or red follicles 15mm x 9mm with longitudinal groove hanging in grape-like clusters.

Poisonous

Medicinal uses for leaves, bark sap makes a yellow dye

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• Fzim
• Fmoz
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• AUWP