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Sacosperma paniculatum

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Bentham) G. Taylor

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated area
• forest edge
• secondary jungle

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Jun
• Oct

Fruiting Times

Weak twining glabrate liana with purplish branches, papery leaves to 125mm x 50mm. 10mm long lavender-mauve or red, white or blue flowers in terminal panicles 300mm long, green coriaceous calyx with tube to 3mm diameter,pale blue corolla with hairy throat. Fruit ripening black, a coriaceous globose capsule to 5mm long x 4mm

Further References

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