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Combretum platypterum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

(Welwitsch) Hutchinson & Dalziel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Riverbank
• secondary vegetation
• forest
• woodland
• thickets
• montane forest edges

Flowering Times

• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep

Twining shrub, sometimes climbing with glabrous leaves, puberulous panicles with bracteoles, yellow to red flowers, 5-lobed calyx tube to 30mm long, 5 petals, scandent shrub, fruits pink-red then pale yellow

Roots & leaves have medicinal uses

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Mobot
• FCP
• Welw
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA