Biology:Bequaertia
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
| Bequaertia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Plantae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Tracheophytes |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Angiosperms |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Eudicots |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Rosids |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Celastrales |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Celastraceae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Bequaertia R.Wilczek (1956) |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">B. mucronata |
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| Bequaertia mucronata (Exell) R.Wilczek (1956)
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Bequaertia mucronata is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Celastraceae. It is a climbing shrub or liana native to western and central tropical Africa, ranging from Guinea to southwestern Uganda. It grows in damp forests and on river banks.[1] It is the sole species in genus Bequaertia.[2]
Plants can grow 15 to 25 meters tall. The main stem can exceed 10 cm in diameter, and branches are covered in a brownish-red bark which becomes pale and flaky with age. Leaves are elliptic in shape, (5–)9–14 cm long and 3–5 cm wide, with a papery texture. Flowers are 4–5 mm in diameter with fleshy incurved petals, which are white at first and change to orange, rose-salmon and finally brownish-red.[1]
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