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Alafia benthamii

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Baillon ex Stapf) Stapf

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Congo
• Gabon
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb

Fruiting Times

Tall woody climbing shrub. Coriaceous glabrous leaves 50mm x 18mm. Puberulous cymes with minute bracts, with greenish white to yellow flowers with red centre, calyx 1.5mm long, corolla tube 4mm long, lobes 8mm long. Glabrous follicles to 225mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Jstor
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew