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Gloriosa simplex
Gloriosa simplex
- Botanic Family
- Colchicaeae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritraea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Cape Province
- Natal - South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Montane forest
- seasonally inundated areas
- woodland
- savanna
- shrubland
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Jul
- Nov
- Dec (Tanzania)
Fruiting Times
Climber to 3m. Twining leaf tips. Leaves cirrhose at apex to 150mm x 40mm. Axillary flowers. Yellow tepals to 75mm x 25mm with red-purple median stripe.
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