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Baissea viridiflora

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(K. Schumann) de Kruif

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Malawi
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• moist forest
• gallery forest
• montane streamside

Flowering Times

• Nov (Malawi)
• Oct-Nov (Tanzania)

Fruiting Times

Tall twiner to 15m, glabrescent branchlets. Glabrous leaves 110mm x 45mm, glabrescent beneath. Terminal & axillary panicles of slightly fragrant white flowers, calyx 1mm long, sepals to 2.7mm, greenish-white or yellow corolla 2.9mm long glabrous outside with lobes to 10mm x 1.8mm. Brown-pubescent or glabrescent follicles to 300mm x 5mm.

Further References

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