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Allophylus africanus

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

P. Beauvois

Common Names

• Gbè-úré (Zande)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Cape Province
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• secondary forest
• forest margins
• savanna

Flowering Times

• Jun (Cameroon)
• Feb (Gabon)
• Jun-Jul (Guinea)
• Feb (Malawi)

Fruiting Times

• Aug (Cameroon)
• Jan (Gabon)

Sometimes climbing glabrous or hairy shrub or tree to 12m. 3-foliolate glabrous leaves, dentate serrate leaflets to 145mm x 70mm. Panicles to 150mm long of minute sweet-scented creamy white catkin-like flowers, sepals 1mm x 1.5mm, petals to 1mm x 0.5mm. Red, yellow-orange or blackish hairy fruit to 7mm x 4.5mm.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• FOL
• FWTA
• PSN
• Jstor
• Mobot