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Helictonema velutinum

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Afzelius) R. Wilsek

Common Names

• Amebelekbelek

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Jul

Fruiting Times

Tall liane or rusty-tomentose climbing shrub with rusty-pubescent axillary or terminal panicles or racemes with bracts to 6mm, of yellow-green flowers, brownish-green petals outside, fawn inside 12mm diameter, fimbriate petals, hirsute ovary, rusty hispid-tomentose fruit 50mm long, leaves clothed with rufous villi, glabrous above with rusty hispid mid-rib, scabrid beneath 100mm x 45mm

Further References

• Mobot
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA