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Plant in Guinea by Rainer Wendt, Inaturalist.ca.
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Drawing of the plant.

Author: 

Arthur Allman Bullock, 1962

Family: 

ASCLEPIADACEAE*

Origin: 

Central African Republic, Guinea, Sierra Leone

Soil: 

Granite

Water: 

Medium

Sun: 

Medium - Maximum

Thickness: 

4 Centimetres

Height: 

50-90 Centimetres

Flower: 

Blue

Propagate: 

Seeds

Names: 

-

Synonyms: 

Raphionacme sudanica, Hutch. & Dalziel, 1931.
Raphionacme caerulea
, E.A.Bruce, 1935.

This member of the Asclepiadaceae* family was given this name by Arthur Allman Bullock in 1962. It is found in Central African Republic, Guinea and Sierra Leone, growing on pure granite or in a well drained soil with some water and some to lots of sun. The caudex can grow to four centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to 50 or even 90 centimetres in height. The flowers are blue - well; bluish.

The genera name means 'five angled thorn'. The species name caerulea referring to the blue flowers which are unique in the genus.

*)Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Asclepiadaceae is now part of the Apocynaceae.