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Rutidea membranacea

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Hiern

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Angola
• Benin
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• forest edge

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb

Woody liana or scrambling glabrescent shrub with orange fruit, climbing with hooks (recurved axillary spines), glabrescent papery leaves with unpleasant smell when crushed 125mm x 60mm, terminal corymbs with bracteoles, flowers 5mm long with glabrous calyx tube, glabrous corolla with lobes 2mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• Jstor
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew