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Culcasia angolensis

Botanic Family

Araceae

Author

Welwitsch ex Schott

Common Names

• Greater Climbing Arum
• Mbali (Mawambo)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Cameroon
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Guinea
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Fores
• woodland
• montane woodland.

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Large-leaved rampant climber to 35m high with masses of short roots adhering to tree trunks, glabrous leaves to 375mm x 185mm, terminal racemes with bracts 100mm x 32mm with 2 wing-like keels on back, 60mm x 50mm spathe pale green, 40mm long flowers, sweet-perfumed & attracting flies lasting only a day, creamy-yellow spadix female part to 10mm x 6mm, male part to 40mm x 12mm, red berry

Further References

• Jstor
• FCP
• net
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew