箭毒羊角拗

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderGentianales
5. FamilyApocynaceae

Native toAngola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea

Observations recorded1,692

Lianas or stolon-bearing shrubs when cut, to 5 m tall, densely hispid; latex clear, reddish or white. Petiole 1-5 mm; leaf blade ovate to obovate, 3-22 X 1.5-12 cm, base rounded or subcordate; lateral veins 6-11 pairs. Cymes 3-72-flowered. Sepals ovate, inner ones often linear, 1.3-3.5 cm. Corolla yellow, tube 1-2.2 cm; lobes including tails 15-22.5 cm, proximal part ovate, tail pendulous, puberulent on both sides, to 1 mm wide; corona lobes yellow spotted with red, purple, or brown, tongue-shaped. Anthers included, glabrous. Ovary hispid. Style to 1.2 cm. Follicles very narrowly oblong, to 54 3 cm, densely lenticellate. Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, beak 2.3-7.7 cm, coma to 5 cm. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. Jun-Dec. 2n = 18.

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