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Strychnos icaja

Botanic Family

Loganiaceae

Author

Baillon

Common Names

• Esuwesuwe (Zaire)
• Mshongo (Kiha)

Geographical Habitats

• Cameroon
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Congo (DR)
• Tanzania
• Mozambique
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Burundi
• Central African Republic
• Ghana
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Streamside woodland
• riverside
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Nov
• Dec

Large liana, shrub or tree with tendrils, angular stems with lenticels, glabrous or pubescent branchlets. Glabrous coriaceous leaves 300mm x 100 or pubescent beneath. Axillary or lateral many-flowered galbrous cymes with bracts 1mm long, white flowers with disagreeable odour, calyx 2mm long, yellow corolla 6mm long, corolla tube 2mm long with lobes 4mm long. 60mm diameter fruit.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Talbot