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Strophanthus sarmentosus

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

de Candolle

Common Names

• Abuli (Bambindjere)

Geographical Habitats

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

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• semi-deciduous forest
• streamside
• shrubland
• coastal.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• May
• Jul
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jun

Tall glabrous deciduous sarmentose shrub or rambling liana, branches with white corky protuberances. Papery leaves 100mm x 55mm. Terminal or lateral cymes with bracts to 8mm long to 11 fragrant flowers, calyx 14mm long, white corolla with pink marks inside glabrous without, puberulous within, 400mm white striped purple or red fasciculate flowers , corolla tube to 40mm long white aging yellow, outside pink & turning purple in upper part, white & purple streaked inside, lobes with tails to 135mm long. Brown to purple-brown glabrous divergent follicles to 180º to 300mm x 44mm.

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FCP
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• Beentje
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Kew
• FOL