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Vangueriella spinosa

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Schumacher & Thonning) Verdcourt

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Nigeria
• Togo

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Apr

Fruiting Times

Spiny tree or shrub with twining branches, spines to 25mm long, leaves 75mm long, axillary racemes with bracteoles of fragrant cream or light green flowers with reflexed lobes, corolla 8mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• Jstor
• NLBIF
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Kew