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Vincetoxicum sylvaticum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Decaisne) Kuntze

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest edge
• forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• May

Twining glabrous liane with glabrous leaves 150mm x 80mm, sub-lateral racemes or umbels of brown-violet flowers, puberulous sepals 1mm long, purplish corolla 4mm diameter with 5 glabrous lobes 2mm long, corona 1mm long, glabrous follicles 85mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• de Candolle
• FOTA
• Kew