Landolphia buchananii
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| Landolphia buchananii | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Genus: | Landolphia |
| Species: | L. buchananii |
| Binomial name | |
| Landolphia buchananii | |
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Landolphia buchananii is a liana within the Apocynaceae family.[2] It is sometimes called Nandi rubber in English and known locally as Mugu among Kikuyus.[3] Occurs in savannahs and montane forests in East Africa and Southeastern Nigeria.
As a climbing liana, it that can go as high as 40 meters and reach a diameter of 23 cm, occasionally, a sarmentose shrub, it can be capable of reaching 7 meters high; its stem is dark brown with white latex.[4] Coriaceous leaves and a glabrous or pilose petiole that is 1.5-8 mm long. Leaf blades are elliptic to obovate in outline, 1.9-14.5 cm long and 0.8-6 cm wide; leaflets are covered with minute or woolly hairs but can occasionally be glabrous.[4] Terminal inflorescence, 2-20 flowered, composed of sepals that glabrous on the outside; fragrant flower with white, creamy or yellowish colored corolla and tubes that are sometimes green. [4]Peduncle can be tendril like, curled or elongate and is 5-33 mm long, pedicel is 1.2-6.5 mm long. Fruit, 2-20 seeded is globular in form, usually green with white or light brown spots on it.[4]