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Strophanthus gratus

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Wallich & Hooker ex Bentham) Baillon

Common Names

• Climbing Oleander
• Roupellia
• Cream Fruit
• Xuan hau yang jiao niu (Pinyin)
• Hom Pi Nang (Thai)
• Estrofanto
• Iné (Cameroon
• Gabon) Onayé (Cameroon
• Gabon)
• Twisted flower

Geographical Habitats

• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Primary
• secondary forest
• forest margins
• riverside.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Jul Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Sep
• Nov

Large woody glabrous liana sometimes a shrub or tree, semi-deciduous, older stems with corky ridges, branches dotted with small lenticels. Coriaceous leaves 150mm x 75mm. Night scented 45mm pink or white flowers in terminal few to 32-flowered cymes with deciduous bracts to 3mm long, white aging yellow, turning yellow at base reddish or purple above, fringed reddish throat, white & red or purple streaked inside, calyx 16mm long, corolla tube to 45mm, lobes pink turning purple to 35mm. Divaricate glabrous follicles dark brown to purple-brown,at 180º to 410mm long x 50mm.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• The Plant List 2
• Beentje
• FOTA
• Kew
• FOL
• Gleason & Moldenke