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Salacia senegalensis

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Lamarck) de Candolle

Common Names

• Beacon Bush (Sierra Leone)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Congo (DR)
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberia
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

Natural Habitats

• Secondary vegetation
• forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jan

Fruiting Times

Large liana or erect or glabrous climbing shrub with scabrous branches. Serrated coriaceous glabrous leaves 150mm x 75mm. Fragrant white or yellow-green flowers in axillary fascicles. Orange or yellow apple-shaped fruit 32mm long.

Further References

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