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Secamone alpini

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Schultes

Common Names

• Rosy Milkweed Vine
• Dudhia Lata or Dadh Lata (Bangladesh)

Geographical Habitats

• Egypt
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Cape Province
• Natal
• Orange Free State
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• streamside
• woodland
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Jul
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• May
• Sep
• Oct

Perennial climbing or scrambling twining glabrous shrub with leaves 60mm x 25mm glabrous both surfaces. Terminal or axillary cymes or panicles with bracts to 1mm long of pairs of greenish-cream flowers, sepals 1mm long, corolla glabrous outside pubescent inside 4mm diameterfollicles to 100mm long, tube 1mm long lobes 1.5mm x 1mm. Widely divergent glabrous green follicles 100mm x 3mm

Further References

• Mobot
• G. Don
• FOTA
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• Kew
• BTH