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Cryptolepis africana

Cryptolepis africana
Photo: The illustration was drawn by Anet Kotze and published in H.J.T. Venter, R.L. Verhoeven (2007) A re-appraisal of Cryptol, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Native range
SE. Kenya
Climate
wet tropical

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Cryptolepis africana is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is native to Kenya.

Arthur Allman Bullock, the botanist who first formally described the species, using the synonymous subspecies name Cryptolepis sinensis subsp. africana, named it after the location where the sample he examined was collected in East Africa.

Other Cryptolepis plants

Cryptolepis capensis · Cryptolepis cryptolepioides · Jackalplant · Cryptolepis delagoensis · Indian Sarsaparilla · Bokhoring · Cryptolepis sanguinolenta · Cryptolepis sinensis · Milk Ropes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cryptolepis africana 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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