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Strophanthus hispidus

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

A. P. de Candolle

Common Names

• Jian du yang jiao niu (Pinyin)
• Isha Giri (Nigeria)
• Libobo Li Tokembe (Zaire)
• Lofondja (Zaire)
• Ometwa (Ghana)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• disturbed areas
• primary & secondary forest
• woodland thickets

Flowering Times

• Feb-Apr (Ghana)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Jul (Ghana)

Hairy sarmentose deciduous tall liane or shrub, branches & branchlets densely hispid, leaves 150mm x 85mm glabrescent above, with terminal corymbs,cymes or fascicles with hispid bracts to 20mm long to 72 flowers, 22mm long white aging orange or yellow flowers puberulous outside, suffused red near base outside, red or purple spotted inside, tube to 22mm, lobes with tails to 225mm, divergent dark brown glabrescent follicles to 260º 543mm x 18mm diameter dotted with lenticels

Further References

• FOC
• Mobot
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• Beentje
• G. Don
• FOTA
• Kew