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Leptadenia lanceolata

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Poiret) Goyder

Common Names

• Yadiya

Geographical Habitats

• Algeria
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Ethiopia
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Libya
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Apr
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Oct
• Nov

Twining shrub with dense tomentum, leaves 125mm x 45mm both surfaces puberulous becoming glabrous above, lateral tomentose umbels of fragrant green, white or yellow flowers, 5-lobed calyx, lobes to 4mm long, corolla tube 2mm long & twistd tomentose lobes 5mm long, coronal lobes 3mm long, glabrous beaked follicles 100mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• FOTA
• Kew