Philenoptera cyanescens (Schumach. & Thonn.) Roberty

Species

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Characteristics

A woody climber or straggling shrub. It can grow 2-3 m high as a bush when cultivated. It can grow 15-20 m long. The branches are silky when young. The flowers are reddish. They are in groups 25 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.13 - 3.0
Root system -
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in coastal districts and forests. It in on the edge of savannah forests in West Africa. It can be along the edges of forests and mangroves.
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Coastal, riverine and fringing evergreen forest and thicket, and in wooded grassland and scrub vegetation, at elevations from sea-level up to 400 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses dye environmental use fiber food material medicinal poison wood
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Puerperium (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Leprosy (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Stomachic (unspecified), Yaws (unspecified), Cataract (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Philenoptera cyanescens world distribution map, present in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:514227-1
WFO ID wfo-0000199347
COL ID 4G5S4
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Philenoptera cyanescens Lonchocarpus cyanescens Robinia cyanescens