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Ancylobothrys amoena

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Hua

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge

Flowering Times

• Aug
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Oct

Climbing or erect shrub to 27m with sensitive inflorescences acting as tendrils. Coriaceous leaves 135mm x 60mm rusty-pubescent becoming glabrescent. Fragrant flowers reddish, to purple to white in terminal rusty-tomentose terminal panicles with bracts, rusty-tomentose calyx 3mm long, sweet-scented white corolla, rusty tomentose tube 14mm long & lobes 14mm long. 150mm warty globular fruit.

Further References

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