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Keetia venosa

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Oliver) Bridson

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkino Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• woodland
• secondary vegetation

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• May
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Long scandent liane or tall climbing pubescent unarmed shrub, whole plant covered in rusty brown hairs, leaves 125mm x 50mm glabrescent above except midrib & hispid beneath. 4mm long scented white or yellow-green flowers in axillary cymes 40mm diameter with bracts, hispid or glabrous calyx tube, corolla tube hairy inside, 8mm long green fruit tinged red-brown & drying black

Further References

• Mobot
• Welw
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• FOTA
• Fedde
• Kew