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Rytigynia umbellulata

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Hiern) Robyns

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde Is.
• Central African Republic
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea Bissau
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• woodland
• thicket
• lakesides
• coastal
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Apr
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Scrambling or erect glabrous small shrub or small tree with glabrate leaves or with scattered hairs 75mm x 40mm, umbels or cymes with bracteoles & bracts, up to 8 flowers cream, yellow, greenish or white to 6mm long, with glabrous calyx, corolla tube 3mm long, corolla with bearded throat & 5 lobes, fruit black to 9mm diameter

Medicinal uses

Further References

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