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Combretum grandiflorum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

G. Don

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• evergreen forest
• streamside thickets
• coastal shrubland

Flowering Times

• Autumn to Winter Sep

Fruiting Times

Evergreen scandent hairy shrub or twining liana with glabrescent leaves 100mm x 50mm. 20mm red & yellow flowers in axillary & terminal dense one-sided spikes or racemes to 120mm long with bracts, red-purple petals to 12mm long, purple petioles, pubescent calyx, tube to 20mm long slightly puberulous outside glabrous within, yellow anthers. Brown or pale yellow 5-winged fruit 40mm long, spineless,

Further References

• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2002
• Neotrop
• FCP
• Jstor
• Welw
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• FOL