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Landolphia dulcis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Sabine ex G. Don) Pichon

Common Names

• Sweet Pishamin (Sierra Leone)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde Islands
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest.

Flowering Times

• Jun
• Jul

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• Sep
• Nov

Tendril liane, branches with a few lenticels, with green fruit turning orange, fragrant pale purple axillary hirsute solitary, cymes or twin flowers with 4 bracts, calyx 3mm long, corolla tube 8mm long almost glabrous with lobes 8mm long, glabrescent coriaceous leaves 110mm x 50mm

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• FCP
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FOTA
• Kew
• FOL