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Mussaenda arcuata

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Lamarck ex Poiret

Common Names

• Ikiryoheramuhoro (Kirundi)
• Lengo
• Dumedume (Andiri)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Réunion
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• swamp edge.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• Aug
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Woody liana or scrambling shrub to 5m with corymbs or terminal panicles of fragrant 40mm long red or yellow flowers with orange centres becoming brown, tomentose yellow corolla limb 25mm diameter with orange or purplish hairs at throat, corolla tube diameter villous inside, glabrous outside, calyx tube 5mm long with white bract 40mm long. Green hairy or glabrous fruit 16mm long ripening orange, leaves 150mm x 60mm, glabrous or nearly so, pilose on nerves beneath

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• Welw
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Ichigawa
• Kew