Description:
Tendrillous lianes climbing to 15 m and more; latex abundant; spines absent. Leaves obovate, oblong-obovate or elliptic, base shortly auricled; petiolate; stipules interpetiolar. Inflorescences loose, elongate terminal panicles of few-flowered cymes. Flowers sweet-scented. Calyx : lobes imbricate, free to base, with conspicuous glandular auricles Corolla hypocrateriform; tube cylindric, slightly enlarged at level of anthers; lobes narrowly linear, contorted, overlapping to the left, long-ciliate on inner margins. Stamens inserted in corolla tube between 1/4 and 3/4 of its length; filaments very short; anthers without carina. Ovary glabrous, multi-ovulate; clavuncle positioned at base of anthers. Fruit a many-seeded glabrous berry lacking a sclerified layer in pericarp.
Distribution:
Species 5, African; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Dictyophleba lucida (K.Schum.) Pierre, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique.
Source:
SSTA
Synonym(s):
Landolphia P.Beauv., in part.
Classification:
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