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Lepisanthes senegalensis

Botanic Family

Sapindaceae

Author

(Poiret) Leenhouts

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Bangladesh
• Benin
• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Hainan - China
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guineai Bissau
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Sabah
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Nigeria
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Senegal
• Somalia
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania. Thailand
• Togo
• Uganda
• Vietnam
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• secondary forest
• riverside
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Jul-Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Apr

Treelet or shrub occasionally a liana, young parts with ferrugineous hairs, paripinnate glabrous leaves to 6-paired, leaflets to 350mm x 150mm. Terminal racemes or thyrses to 600mm long, slightly fragrant flowers, slightly downy calyx, 5 dark red sepals, outer 2 to 3mm x 1.2mm, inner 3 to 4mm x 3mm, 5 cream or greenish-white petals to 4.5mm x 2mm, 2-lobed glabrous dark red to black capsule 15mm x 15mm

Further References

• Flora Malesiana
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• GBS