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Benkara scandens

Botanic Family
Rubiaceae
Author
(Thunberg) Ridsdale

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Spiny glabrous liana to 3m with thorns to 12mm. Glabrous leaves to 55mm x 25mm. Solitary axillary or sub-terminal 1-3 flowered cymes, white flowers with bracts to 1.5mm long, 5 sepals 2mm long, glabrous calyx tube to 5mm long & lobes to 2mm, 5 petals 12mm long, corolla tube 20mm long villous inside. Glabrous berry 7mm x 7mm surmounted by persistent calyx.

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