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Neostenanthera gabonensis is a shrub or small tree from West and Central African rainforests, growing up to about 6 m, often near rivers and in swampy forest undergrowth. It is a wild forest species rather than a common garden plant, so it is best grown in a humid, shaded, moist setting.
Neostenanthera gabonensis is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cabinda Province, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and The Republic of the Congo. Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first formally described the species, using the basionym Oxymitra gabonensis, named it after Gabon where the specimen they examined was found near a site they identified as Sibange-Farm.
It has been observed growing near rivers, in swampy areas, in the undergrowth of primary and secondary forests, at elevations from 15 to 620 meters (49 to 2,000 ft).
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
