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Didymosalpinx abbeokutae

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Hiern) Keay

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Ghana
• Gabon
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Dense moist gallery forest
• riverside . Medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• Mar
• May

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Sep

Scrambling glabrous shrub with hooks or liane, leaves 100mm x 45mm, shiny light orange fruit, paired spines, solitary axillary fragrant greenish-white flowers to 75mm long, glabrous calyx, glabrous 5-lobed corolla to 50mm diameter, mucronate lobes to 25mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• Botanicus
• Menninger 1970
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew