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Combretum racemosum

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

P. Beauvois

Common Names

• False Bougainvillea
• Embema

Geographical Habitats

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

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Oct

Rambling scarcely scandent glabrous shrub clothed with fulvous villi, with racemes or panicles with bracts & white bracteoles, of 25mm reddish-purple or scarlet flowers with white floral leaves, pubescent calyx, petals to 4mm long, pink & white glabrous mucronate leaves 100mm long, 4-winged fruit surmounted by persistent style

Stems give fresh water, stems used in construction

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FCP
• Welw
• BHL
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA