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Bonamia thunbergiana

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Roemer & Schultes) F.N. Williams

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cameroon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea Bissau
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone

Natural Habitats

• Roadside vegetation
• coastal
• montane areas
• disturbed forest

Flowering Times

• Nov-May (Sierra Leone) Mar
• Nov (Ghana) Nov (Guinea) Dec (Liberia)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Apr (Sierra Leone)

Perennial woody climber to 6m with twining or creeping pubescent stems becoming glabrous. Mucronulate leaves to 85mm x 35mm, mostly glabrous above & dense pubescent beneath. White flowers in many-flowered cymes or terminal panicles with minute bracts. Coriaceous tomentose sepals to 8mm long, pilose white corolla to 20mm long. 8-valved glabrous capsule to 8mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• G. Don
• FOTA
• FOL
• Kew