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Ancyclobothrys petersiana

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Klotzsch) Pierre

Common Names

• Mdreege
• Mdreewe
• Houbou Houbou Voualavou (Shibushi)
• Ketohe (Kiswahili)
• Kitoe (Kidoe)
• Mtoroja (Kizigua)
• Msaji Mwitu (Kimatumbi)

Geographical Habitats

• Burundi
• Chad
• Comoros Islands
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Somalia
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Tanzania
• Zaire
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge

Flowering Times

• Nov (Madagascar)

Fruiting Times

• Jul (Tanzania)

Scandent shrub to 6m+ with sensitive inflorescence acting as tendrils, glabrescent lenticellate young branches. Coriaceous leaves 130mm x 65mm becoming glabrous. Greenish-white to pink fragrant flowers in rusty-pubescent terminal panicles with rusty-tomentose bracts, calyx 3mm long with rusty-pubescent sepals, sweet-scented white corolla with tube tp 12mm long & lobes to 24mm long. Velvety fruit yellow or light orange when ripe to 60mm diameter.

Fruit edible, stem used as rope for construction

Further References

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