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Rutidea smithii

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Hiern

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Gulf of Guinea islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• S. Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• secondary vegetation
• gallery forest
• forest margins

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Liana with orange fruit, pubescent reddish-brown branchlets. Leaves glabrate above puberulous on midrib beneath 135mm x 56mm. Strongly perfumed white flowers in dense terminal leafy panicles with bracteoles, glabrous reflexed corolla lobes, exserted anthers. Orange fruit 6mm diameter.

Further References

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