Combretum grandiflorum G.Don
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Authority
Stace, C. A. & Alwan, A.-R A. 2010. Combretaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 107: 1-369. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Combretaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Liana or scandent shrub; flowers in showy lateral spikes or racemes of spikes, or forming terminal panicles of spikes, mostly 20-25 mm long, with narrowly infundibuliform upper hypanthium, with dark bright red, glabrous, well exserted petals ca. 10-15 mm long and long exserted stamens with red filaments; fruits with 5 broad wings.
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Discussion
Illustrations. Bot. Mag. 56: 2944 (1829); Brandis (1893), p. 124; Keay (1954), p. 265.
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Distribution
Native of West Tropical Africa.
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