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Alafia landolphioides
Alafia landolphioides
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (A. de Candolle) K. Schumann
- Propagation
- S.
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Congo
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
- Zaire
Natural Habitats
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Tall glabrous liana to 20m with leaves 135mm x 50mm. Scented white flowers with pink centres in many-flowered fulvo-velvety corymbose inflorescences to 75mm diameter with minute bracts, puberulous calyx 1mm long, white or pink corolla with scarlet throat 60mm long, hairy tube, lobes 8mm long. Glabrous follicles to 500mm x 6mm
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Jstor
- FCP
- The Plant List 2
- FOTA
- Kew
- FWTA