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Combretum comosum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

G. Don

Common Names

• Ndugu Ya Papangu

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Edge of dry forest
• fores
• riverside.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• mar

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb

Climbing shrub or liana with pubescent branches, glabrescent mucronate coriaceous leaves. Panicles with bracts & bracteoles, of 12mm red, pink or crimson flowers, slightly fragrant, pink outside red inside. 4-winged fruit green to reddish.

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Jstor
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• FOL