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Phyllanthus muellerianus

Botanic Family

Phyllanthaceae

Author

(Kuntze) Exell

Common Names

• Ondondongé (Bambindjere)
• Bangaka (Zaire)
• Mulenbalemba (Bemba)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo (DR)
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Is.
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Togo
• Gabon
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• thickets
• riverside
• forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jul
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Nov
• Dec

A glabrous trailing or climbing monoecious shrub, tree or woody twining climber with glabrous stems & recurved spines on branches, glabrous leaves 75mm x 40mm axillary racemes of minute greenish flowers, flowers with 5 sepals, fruit a small red berry 3mm diameter

Further References

• Aluka
• FCP
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew
• FOL