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Ampelocissus leonensis

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Hooker f.) Planchon

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Central African Republic
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Togo

Natural Habitats

• Dry forest
• woodland
• riparian forest. Edible fruit

Flowering Times

• May

Fruiting Times

Liana or herbaceous pubescent climber clothed with fine grey down, striated stems, with branched tendrils. 5-lobed toothed leaves to 225mm x 225mm glabrous above with reddish down beneath. Short pubescent lateral cymes or panicles 100mm across, of small flowers, calyx 2mm across, 5 scarlet petals 4mm across, lateral cymes or panicles of green or scarlet flowers to 9mm long, 4mm across. Purple fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA