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Icacina mannii

Botanic Family

Icacinaceae

Author

Oliver

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• S. Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• secondary forest
• swamp forest
• gallery forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun
• Nov

Cauliflorous sometimes twining liana with large tuber, coriaceous glabrous leaves 150mm x 70mm, axillary racemeswith minute bracts, of pale yellow silky-hirsute flowers, ovary more or less hirsute, red fruit to 31mm long

Medicinal uses, tubers eaten after detoxification

Further References

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