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  • Sizable lianas grow in these flooded areas and include Strychnos blackii, Landolphia paraensis, and Guatteria scandens.

    Marajó varzea 2008

  • In ravines and gallery forests species indicative of a south Guinean climate are present, with lianes very abundant, and species such as Raphia sudanica, Baissea multiflora, Nauclea latifolia, Dalbergia saxatilis, and Landolphia dulcis.

    Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal 2008

  • Several extensive grassy plains covered with the shrub Landolphia parviflora are found in the Congo River Basin, and a very large seasonally inundated grassy plain dominated by Loudetia simplex is found to the south of the Congo-Zambezi divide.

    Angolan Miombo woodlands 2008

  • The understory is often dense and tangled, and dominant liana species include Combretum microphyllum, Uvaria angolensis, Artabotrys monteiroae, and Landolphia.

    Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests 2007

  • Bullock, Landolphia comorensis (Bojer) K.Schum. var. florida (Benth.)

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Two varieties of the valuable rubber-vine, _Landolphia florida_ and _Landolphia

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • Mangue branco (F.) _Landolphia_ (various kinds) Pacouri (L.) _Lecythis grandiflora_ Berg.

    Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • The only true climbers were the calamus and the rubber vine (Landolphia), both of which employ hook tackle.

    Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

  • (partly native varieties and partly introduced); coffee (wild coffee is said to grow in some of the mountainous districts, but the actual coffee cultivated by the European settlers has been introduced from abroad); rubber -- derived chiefly from the various species of _Landolphia_, _Ficus_,

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

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