Batesanthus purpureus

Plants

Family: Apocynaceae · Genus: Batesanthus

Tessa Claase drew the image which was published in H.J.T. Venter, R.L. Verhoeven, Morphology and taxonomy of Baseonema and Batesanthus (Apocynaceae: Periplocoideae), South African Journal of Botany, Volume 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 445-455. · cc_by_sa

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Batesanthus purpureus is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is native to the Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Nigeria. Nicholas Edward Brown, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its purple flowers.

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