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Apocynaceae

Landolphia

Landolphia dulcis

Landolphia dulcis var. dulcis

This variety is accepted

The native range of this variety is W. Tropical Africa. It is a scrambling shrub or tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

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Native to:

Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Heterotypic Synonyms

Carpodinus acida Sabine ex G.Don in Gen. Hist. 4: 101 (1837)
Carpodinus flava Pierre in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris, n.s., 1: 37 (1898), nom. nud.
Carpodinus littoralis A.Chev. in Explor. Bot. Afrique Occ. Franç. 1: 411 (1920), nom. nud.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0