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Atroxima afzeliana

Botanic Family

Polygalaceae

Author

(Oliver) Stapf

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central Africaqn Republic
• Congo
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Gallery forest
• riverside forest
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Oct (Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Aug (Guinea)

Glabrous scandent shrub or tree to 7.5m.Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 100mm x 50mm. Axillary racemes to 40mm long, 6 to 10-flowered, cream or mauve flowers. Edible orange fruit 25mm diameter.

Edible fruit, medicinal uses

Further References

• Botanicus
• Mobot
• Jstor
• The Plant List 2
• FWTA
• FTA