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Karima scarciesii is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, and the sole species in genus Karima. It is a shrub native to Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone in tropical west Africa.
It grows along lowland rivers, mainly in evergreen tropical rain forests and less commonly in gallery forest in the inland forest–savanna transition. It grows along river banks which are submerged in the wet season and exposed in the dry season, usually on rocky banks and less often on sand or silt, in sun or in the shade of riverbank trees. It has a patchy distribution and can be locally common. It typically grows with other rheophytes, including species of Podostemaceae and Rotula aquatica (Boraginaceae).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Karima scarciesii 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.
