![]() ![]() Twigs of the flowering branches slender, glabrous, often bifurcated. Bark of the branches greyish in colour, that of the subterranean roots mahogany-pink. Description Ī very large and stout liana, the trunk 10-15 cm in diameter snaking over the ground for some distance before climbing into the trees to a height of 30-40 m and then cascading in festoons, attached to their supporting trees by short tendrils resembling fish hooks. Vernacular names in the various languages of Ubangi include mbondo in the Bantu language Lissongo, kpwili in Mbwaka and mbondo ou boundou in various other Bantu languages spoken in Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The species was published in the journal Adansonia by Henri Ernest Baillon in the year 1879. It is a very large, tropical rainforest liana which may attain a length of 100 m (330 ft). Strychnos icaja is a species belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae, native to West Tropical Africa. ![]()
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