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Lipotriche scandens

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Schumacher & Thonning) Orchard

Common Names

• Yaya (Andiri)
• Wlassi (Cotafon)
• Wlatchi (Adja)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Ghana
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forest margin
• swampy bushland
• fores
• open forest
• savanna

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Sometimes scandent or creeping or climbing scabrid herb to 4m or shrub with quadrangular strigulose branches. Leaves sometimes 3-lobed 150mm x 75mm scabrous above strigose beneath. Terminal or axillary cymes of yellow-orange flowers 25mm wide, achenes 1.5mm

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA