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Cryptolepis nigrescens

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Wennberg) L. Joubert & Bruyns

Common Names

• Mutalikuko (Andiri)
• Kolokuko (Andiri
• Nduye)
• Mutali (Teturi
• Mawambo)

Geographical Habitats

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

Natural Habitats

• Roadside
• riverside
• wet areas
• forest
• montane habitats
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Sep
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb

Glabrous slender twining liana or climbing shrub with leaves 135mm x 85mm glabrous both surfaces. Axillary glabrous panicles 75mm long with bracts 2mm long, flowers white outside, reddish-black to chocolate inside, sepals 3mm x 3mm, glabrous corolla dark red inside with lobes 10mm x 6mm. Horizontal follicles to 425mm long.

Leaves & sap have medicinal uses, used for arrow poison

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• FCP
• G. Don
• WFO
• FOTA
• FOL