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Lepistemon owariense

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(P. Beauvois) Hallier f.

Common Names

• Malyimbavalva (Kisafwa)
• Igubhi (Kitongwe)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• 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

• Woodland
• rainforest margin
• scrub
• riverside
• thickets
• disturbed forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep

Twining herbaceous tomentose liane with axillary umbels or cymes with minute bracts, of red or white to cream flowers, sepals 6mm long, white corolla with 12mm long tube with limb 12mm diameter, coriaceous brown capsule with brown spiny pubescence to 12mm long, stems, peduncles, petioles & calyxes with stiff hairs, toothed lobed leaves with stiff hairs 160mm x 150mm

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• FA
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• JAA
• Kew