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Ritchiea erecta

Botanic Family

Capparaceae

Author

Hooker f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (Sierra Leone)

Fruiting Times

Erect or scandent twining shrub with glabrous branches, 1-3 foliolate leaves, glabrous leaflets, median leaflet 200mm x 85mm, lateral leaflets shorter, fragrant terminal or axillary corymbose racemes of yellowish-green or white flowers with blue anthers, ternate coriaceous leaves

Further References

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