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Leptadenia arborea

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Forsskal) Schweinfurth

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Algeria
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Eritraea
• Ethiopia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Saudi Arabia
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Yemen

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Twiner with glabrous stems, leaves 75mm x 50mm glabrous both sides, subaxillary umbels of green flowers, puberulous calyx 1.3mm long with 5 lobes, corolla 5mm diameter with tube 1.3mm long & lobes 2.5mm, glabrous coronal lobes tipped with tuft of long hairs, glabrous follicles 75mm x 10mm

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• G. Don
• de Candolle
• Kew