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Alchornea laxiflora

Botanic Family

Euphorbiaceae

Author

(Bentham) Pax & K. Hoffmann

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Is.
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• evergreen forest
• shrubland
• thickets
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Jan (Cameroon) Feb (Zaire) Nov (Tanzania)

Fruiting Times

• Mar (Cameroon) Oct (Gulf of Guinea Islands) Sep
• Nov (Tanzania)

Monoecious or dioecious climber, shrub or tree to 8m with puberulous lenticellate twigs. Crenate leaves to 180mm x 80mm, glabrous above & hairy on nerves beneath becoming glabrescent. Axillary male spikes to 75mm long with bracts to 5mm x 2mm, greenish white male flowers calyx 1mm wide with 2-5 sepals, calyx segmentsgreen with purple margins, pink filaments. Terminal solitary or paired lax female inflorescence to 150mm long with bracts to 3mm long & bracteoles to 1mm long, 5-6 sepals to 0.7mm long. Puberulous 3-4 lobed capsule to 12mm long.

Live fences

Further References

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