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Tragia spathulata

Botanic Family

Euphorbiaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Congo
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• primary forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Slender twiner with stinging hairs, leaves with serrate margins, bristly hairs above pubescent beneath 75mm x 40mm, lateral racemes, Male flowers with bristly bracts 4mm long, female bracts 3-lobed, male flowers with 3 sepals, female calyx with 6 pubescent segments 8mm long, capsule densely bristly 8mm across

Further References

• Mobot
• Aluka
• APD
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew