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Loeseneriella africana

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Willdenow) R. Wilczek

Common Names

• Kiguea-Nguve (Pare)

Geographical Habitats

• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Thorn scrub
• forest
• woodland
• riverside
• forest edge
• savanna

Flowering Times

• Jan (India)

Fruiting Times

• Jun

Vigorous glabrous liana, shrub or scandent shrub with fragrant green flowers in axillary & terminal puberulous paniculate dichotomous cymes, flowers 12mm diameter, branches with tendrils, toothed coriaceous leaves 100mm x 50mm

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• NYBG
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• APD
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• USNH
• FOTA
• JAA