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Baphia spathacea

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Hooker f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cameroon
• Gabon
• Equatorial Guinea
• Liberia
• Niger
• Sierra Leone
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Perennial climbing shrub to 4.5m or tree with glabrous branchlets. Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 150mm long. Axillary panicles of 2-6 yellowish-white flowers with coriaceous rusty slky calyx to 12m, bracteoles to 5mm, yellow corolla to 12mm. Coriaceous grey silky pod to 32mm x 12mm.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• FOTA
• FOL
• FWTA