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Periploca linearifolia

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Quartin-Dillon & A. Richard

Common Names

• Luhumbwa

Geographical Habitats

• Burundi
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Rwanda
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• forest
• woodland
• montane areas.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Jul

Herbaceous glabrous twining vine with leaves 85mm x 75mm, axillary & terminal cymes with bracts 1mm long, of white flowers with brown-pink stripe, sepals 1.5mm long, corolla 10mm diameter with lobes 4mm x 1.5mm, brown follicles 125mm x 4mm horizontally divergent

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• FOTA
• Kew