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Rourea coccinea

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

(Schumacher & Thonning) Bentham

Common Names

• Bakilibakili (Congo)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Fasso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverine forest
• dry semi-deciduous forest
• riverine thickets

Flowering Times

• Sep-Nov (Zimbabwe)

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Nov
• Dec

Liana or scrambling to 3m, or erect glabrous shrub with impari-pinnate leaves with 3-5 pairs of leaflets glabrous when mature to 100mm long. Scented 10mm white or pinkish flowers in lax few-flowered axillary cymes with bracts, lobed calyx 2mm long, white corolla 8mm x 2mm, petals to 8.5mm long. Glabrous coriaceous red follicles 20mm x 8mm finely grooved longitudinally.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• FOC
• Mobot
• FCP
• Jstor
• Fzim
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• FOL
• FTEA