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Batesanthus purpureus is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is native to
the Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Nigeria. Nicholas Edward Brown, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its purple (purpureus in Latin) flowers.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Batesanthus purpureus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
