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Telosma africana

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(N.E. Brown) N.E. Brown

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Mali
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Natal
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Yemen
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Woodland

Flowering Times

• Mar (Uganda)

Fruiting Times

Glabrous twiner, leaves 100mm x 75mm, lateral or subaxillary umbels with minute bracts, glabrous sepals 4mm long, yellow corolla with tube 8mm long glabrous outside hairy within, corolla lobes 12mm x 1.5mm, coronal lobes to 3.5mm long

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Jstor
• Kew