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Landolphia owariensis
Landolphia owariensis
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- P. Beauvois
Common Names
- Matakalaka (Bakembe)
- Elembe (Bayanga)
- Pembe
- Banga (Banda)
- Ndene (Andiri
- Nduye)
- Makpodu (Andiri)
- Buma (Teturi
- Mawambo)
- Abuma (Teturi
- Mawambo)
- Mapa (Swahili)
- White Rubber Vine
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zaire
- Zambia
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- savanna
- primary forest
- shrubland
- montane forest.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Tall glabrous liana, tree or shrub with hooked tendrils. Glabrous coriaceous leaves 150mm x 75mm or glabrous above pubescent beneath. Terminal many-flowered tomentose panicles or corymbs to 45mm wide with fulvo-tomentose bracts, of white flowers to 10mm long, fulvo-tomentose calyx 3mm long with 5 sepals, white scented corolla 8mm diameter aging brown, pubescen tube 7mm long pubescent without, reflexed lobes 7mm long pubescent without or both sides. 100mm long reddish-brown or deep yellow berry to 80mm diameter, wrinkled or with irregular longitudinal ribs.
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- FCP
- de Candolle
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- FOTA
- Kew
- FOL
- Ichikawa
- Talbot