| Home | > | List of families | > | Apocynaceae subfamilies Apocynoideae and Rauvolfioideae | > | Strophanthus | > | amboensis |
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| Common names: | Elephant vine (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Cultivated and rarely naturalised |
| Description: |
Scrambling shrub to 3 m. Branchlets glabrous but white lenticels present. Leaf lamina oblong-ovate, 6-8 × 3-5 cm, glabrous. Corolla tube 20 mm long; lobes white below extending into greenish-yellow linear tails 5 cm long; 7 mm wide at the base, narrowing to about 1.5 mm wide at the apex. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | amboensis: from ‘Amboland’ a variant version of Ovamboland near the northern border of Namibia with Angola. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Angola and Namibia. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Pages 554 - 555. (Includes a picture). |
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