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Clerodendrum silvanum

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Henriques

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Mixed forest
• montane forest
• lakeside
• riverine forest
• gallery forest
• primary & secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Oct
• Nov

Glabrous woody climber to 33m or scrambling or erect shrub with thorny glabrous lenticellate branches. Glabrous leaves to 200mm x 100mm, crushed leaves have almond smell. Terminal or axillary, frequently cauliflorous many-flowered panicles or cymes to 175mm long with small bracts, fragrant 25mm white or cream flowers or not fragrant depending on time of day, glabrous calyx to 8mm x 6mm with 5 teeth 2mm wide, glabrous white corolla, corolla tube to 25mm long with 5 lobes to 6mm long. Black, red or white drupe, enlarged white calyx

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Aluka
• FCP
• APD
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew