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Harrisonia abyssinica

Botanic Family

Rutaceae

Author

Oliver

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Thicket
• streamside
• riverine forest
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb

Scrambling spiny shrub, liana or tree, hooked prickles, coriaceous glabrous leaves to 75mm long, dentate serrate leaflets 20mm long in 3 pairs, petiole winged between pairs of leaflets, greenish-white flowers in axillary racemes or cymes, calyx with 5 pubescent lobes, petals puberulous outside, red fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA