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Buckollia tomentosa

Buckollia tomentosa
Photo: The unattributed image was published in H.J.T. Venter, R.L. Verhoeven (1994) Buckollia, a new genus in the Periplocaceae, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Native range
S. Ethiopia to NE. Uganda
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Buckollia tomentosa is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is native to

the Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda. Eileen Adelaide Bruce, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the dense covering of wooly hairs (tomentosus in Latin) on its flowers.

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Buckollia volubilis · Buckollia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Buckollia tomentosa 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.

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