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Rourea thomsonii

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

(Baker) Jongkind

Common Names

• Msitu (Kitongwe)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• riverbank
• forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jun
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep

Woody glabrous liane to 25m, shrub or tree young branches puberulous becoming glabrous, older branches with lenticels. Imparipinnate leaves with 5-9 coriaceous leaflets to 160mm x 70mm glabrous above grey-pubescent or ferrugineous beneath. Scented white flowers with 2mm long calyx, sepals 3mm x 2mm, white to creamy yellow petals to 10mm x 2.5mm, in axillary rusty-downy corymbs, cymes or terminal panicles to 180mm long. Reddish or greenish-yellow glabrous leathery pod to 40mm x 17mm, enclosed in persistent calyx.

Further References

• Mobot
• Botanicus
• FCP
• Jstor
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• FOL