Telosma africana (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.

African telosma (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Telosma

Characteristics

A woody climber. It is a twining plant. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaf stalks are 2 cm long. The leaf blades are broadly oval and pointed. They are 10 cm long by 5.5 cm wide. The flowers are greenish.
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Glabrous twining herb. Leaves broadly ovate, subtruncate to cordate at base, acute. Corolla glabrous outside, densely hairy at throat and upper part inside. Flowers green, yellow.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 7.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Riverine or damper deciduous forest.
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A tropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The leaves are used as a vegetable.
Uses medicinal wood
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Telosma africana world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Chad, Togo, Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:102154-1
WFO ID wfo-0000411692
COL ID 7C23W
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Pergularia tacazzeana Pergularia africana Telosma africana Telosma unyorensis