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Clerodendrum schweinfurthii

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Gürke

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ivory Coast
• Mozambique
• S. Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally flooded area
• shade
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Aug
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Oct

Climbing shrub with glabrous or velvety branchlets. Glabrous leaves or velvety beneath 200mm x 125mm with undulate margins. Axillary cymes or terminal heads with small bracts, scented white flowers, glabrous calyx to 5mm long with shorter lobes, glabrous corolla tube to 40mm long, lobes to 5mm long. Fruit dark green to black to 8mm long, scrambling shrub with spiny stem

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew