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Ostryocarpus riparius

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Hooker f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cameroon
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Semi-aquatic sites or riverbanks
• coastal.

Flowering Times

• Dec

Fruiting Times

Perennial glabrous climbing shrub or liane, young twigs ferrugineous pubescent. 5 leaflets, coriaceous glabrous terminal leaflet to 200mm long. Panicles of pink & yellow-white flowers, axillary & terminal panicles of flowers to 6mm, glabrous calyx to 4mm, yellowish corolla to P4mm. Glabrous coriaceous flat 50mm x 50mm long seed pods, climbing or straggling, glabrous

Further References

• ILDIS
• Mobot
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• FOL