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Cynanchum insipidum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(E. Meyer) Liede & Khanum

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Botswana
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Congo
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Rwanda
• Somalia
• Cape Provinces
• Natal
• Orange Free State
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• streamside
• disturbed woodland

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Jun

Twining glabrous or pubesrulous subshrub to 8m, with glabrous leaves 75mm x 25mm, extra-axillary racemes with bracts to 2mm long, of greenish-yellow to white flowers tinged purplish, puberulous sepals to 3.5mm long, glabrous corolla lobes 6mm x 3mm, glabrous follicles 70mm x 20mm

Further References

• Mobot
• de Candolle
• FOTA
• Kew
• WFO