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Dictyophleba lucida

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(K. Schumann) Pierre

Common Names

• Mabungo Madogo (Kiha)
• Kinoe Pango (Kizaramo)
• Mangocha'aei (Andiri)
• Gbado'aei (Nduye)
• Malondo (Teturi)
• Malondo (Mawambo)
• Makpa (Swahili)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Comoros Islands
• Gabon
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Tanzania
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Thicket
• forest streamside

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Jan (Congo)
• Apr-Nov (Zaire)

Tall liana or scandent woody shrub climbing to 30m, by means of sensitive inflorescence acting as tendrils, branches with minute lenticels, coriaceous leaves glabrous both surfaces 150mm x 80mm. Scented reddish-yellow flowers in terminal or pseudo-axillary panicles with bracts, calyx to 2.5mm long with glabrous sepals 3mm long, sweet-scented white corolla with reddish tube to 19mm long & lobes to 14mm long. 50mm diameter yellow fruit red-brown when ripe

Edible fruit & seeds, white latex

Further References

• Mobot
• WFO
• FOTA
• Kew
• Ichikawa