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Hypselodelphys violacea

Botanic Family

Marantaceae

Author

(Ridley) Milne-Redhead

Common Names

• Meseresele (Balondo)
• Poposo (Bambindjere)

Geographical Habitats

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

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• secondary jungle
• thickets
• woodland.

Flowering Times

• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Feb

Climbing woody shrub or liana to 3m with unarmed branches. Leaves 200mm x 75mm with sheaths 100mm long. green fruit, Compound zigzag racemes ofpink-white or violet & white flowers, sepals 12mm long, inflorescence with deciduous bracts 25mm long. Trigonous densely muricate capsule 50mm diameter.

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• FOL
• Kew