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Landolphia kirkii

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

R.A. Dyer

Common Names

• Mpira (Kiswahili)
• M'bungo (Kidoe)
• Mahanga (Kizaramo)
• Umumubungo

Geographical Habitats

• Burundi
• Central African Republic
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Somalia
• Natal
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• streamside
• woodland.

Flowering Times

• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Jun
• Nov

Woody climber or scandent shrub with tendrils from modified inflorescences, leaves 100mm x 30mm becoming glabrescent, with 75mm diameter green speckled pale green fruit turning pale yellow with brown spots, yellow flowers opening white in fulvo-pubescent corymbs or panicles with minute bracts, calyx 2mm long, whitish corolla with tube to 3.5mm long pubescent outside with pubescent outside lobes 3.5mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Timberlake
• FOTA
• Kew