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Cnestis ferruginea

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

Vahl ex de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• forest margins
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Apr
• May
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• MaySep
• Oct
• Nov

Bristly tall woody climber or sometimes climbing shrub, brown-pubescent, with terminal panicles of fragrant small white flowers 2mm long, calyx to 2mm densely brown-velvety on back, petals shorter, scarlet pungent bristly fruit. Red beaked fruits 40mm long with red-velvety tomentum, twining liana with white flowers, leaves to 300mm long, leaves in 8-15 pairs plus terminal one, leaflets 60mm x 30mm glabrous above grey-ferrugineus-downy beneath also petioles & branchlets

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• APD
• Botanicus
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA