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Cayratia ibuensis

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Hooker f.) Suessenguth

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Egypt
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Burundi
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest edges
• riverside
• streamside inundated areas
• sandy banks
• floating islands
• swamp forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Aug
• Sep
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Sep

Fleshy glabrous herbaceous perennial tendril vine with angular striated stems, 35 -foliolate leaves, toothed glabrous leaflets, terminal leaflet 75mm x 25mm, both surfaces with grey-tomentum when young becoming glabrous, pale green fruit turning black 10mm diameter, axillary cymes or panicles to 150mm across, greenish-yellow or creamy-green flowers, pubescent or glabrous calyx, greenish corolla, 4 reddish petals 2mm across,

Further References

• Mobot
• Adansonia
• Aluka
• Botanicus
• FOTA