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Pentatropis nivalis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(J.F. Gmelin) D.V. Field & J.R.I. Wood

Common Names

• Tsinainkibo

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Burkina Faso
• Chad
• Comoros
• Djibouti
• Guinea
• Gulf States
• Egypt
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• India
• Iran
• Israel
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Yemen

Natural Habitats

• Rocky places in dry forest.

Flowering Times

• All year (Madagascar)

Fruiting Times

Twining vine with slender glabrous stems. Mucronate glabrous leaves to 25mm x 12mm. Subaxillary 8-10 flowered umbels of green to purple yellow-tipped twisted flowers to 8mm, sepals 1mm long, 5-lobed corolla, lobes 3mm x 2.5mm. Follicles to 55mm long

Further References

• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• Jstor
• FOTA
• de Candolle
• Kew