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Helinus mystacinus

Botanic Family

Rhamnaceae

Author

(Aiton) E. Meyer ex Steudel

Common Names

• Olesupein (Kimasai)
• Olesupeni (Kimaasai)

Geographical Habitats

• Burundi
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Mozambique
• Rwanda
• Somalia
• Natal - South Africa
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Edge of thicket
• forest margins

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Jun
• Jul

Scandent with white flowers with green tips, pale green fruit with red streaks, scrambling shrub, pubescent spirally twisted tendrils, pubescent flowers & fruit, simple axillary or terminal umbels of greenish-white flowers, leaves glabrous above, hairy beneath 75mm long

Medicinal uses

Further References

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