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Cryptolepis sanguinolenta

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Lindley) Schlechter

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Riverine or wet forest
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Nov

Slender glabrous twining subshrub to 7.6m, with glabrous leaves 75mm x 32mm, terminal cymes with 4mm bracts of yellow-green flowers, seoals 4mm x 2mm, corolla tube 4mm long, lobes 10mm long yellow & twisted, sap orange turning red

Bark of roots produce yellow dye, medicnal uses

Further References

• Mobot
• Jstor
• FCP
• WFO
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• FOTA
• Kew