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Marsdenia latifolia

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Bentham)K. Schumann

Common Names

• Mutale (Kibila)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• roadside
• semi-deciduous forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• Jul

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Vigorous woody twiner with puberulous or glabrous hollow stems, lobed leaves to 125mm x 105mm, glabrous both sides. Yellow or white flowers in puberulous terminal & subaxillary cymes or panicles to 200mm long with minute bracts, puberulous sepals 2mm long, yellow corolla 6mm diameter glabrous outside with white hairs inside, tube 1.5mm long with 5 lobes 2.5mm long, coronal lobes 1.5mm long, green pods to 80mm long

Further References

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