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Mussaenda elegans

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Schumacher & Thonning

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• secondary forest
• montane forest
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• May
• Jun
• oct

Liane or villous scandent shrub with terminal pubescent panicled corymbs or cymes of 50mm orange-red, brownish-red or flame fragrant flowers with yellow centre, hispid calyx with lobes to 12mm long, corolla tube hispid 25mm long hirsute outside, corolla limb 55mm diameter red inside with yellow hairy throat,lobes glabrous, orange fruit 20mm long, glabous or hispid leaves 110mm x 60mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• FCP
• Welw
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Kew