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Stictocardia beraviensis

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Vatke) H.G. Hallier f.

Common Names

• King's Ipomoea
• Madagascar Convolvulus

Geographical Habitats

• Botswana
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• River banks in forest & bush
• riverine forest
• shrubland
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Jul-Oct Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov

Fruiting Times

Strong woody white-puberulous evergreen twiner with leaves pubescent both surfaces 125mm x 110mm. 1-2 flowered axillary cymes with deciduous bracts to 12mm long, of 55mm crimson flowers with orange-yellow at base of tube, pubescent coriaceous sepals to 12mm long, rose or birght violet glabrous corolla 75mm x 75mm. Fruit a capsule to 20mm diameter, straw-coloured

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• Jstor
• Bodkin
• FOTA
• The Plant List 2
• Kew