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Alternanthera pubiflora
Alternanthera pubiflora
- Botanic Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Author
- (Bentham) Kuntze
Common Names
- Amaranto or Abrojo or Alternatera or Escances Morado or Arancel or Sanguinaria (Spanish)
- Bacaladoor Adrojo or Vinotinto (Colombia)
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- N. Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
Natural Habitats
- Grassland
- coastal thickets
- forest
Flowering Times
- Jan (Bolivia) Feb
- Sep
- Dec (Colombia) Jan
- Feb
- May
- Dec (Costa Rica)
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous perennial climber, trailer or erect plant to 2m, puberulent white stems. White-pubescent mucronate leaves 200mm x 90mm. Axillary & terminal panicles to 18mm x 15mm with glabrous bracts & pilose bractlets, bractlets 2.5mm long, flowers to 5.5mm x 1.8mm with 5 pilose whitish sepals 8mm long with shorter filaments
Medicinal, ornamental
Further References
- NYBG
- The Plant List 2
- NAF
- FOPE
- Standley
- CPLC
- Mobot
- Flora de Colombia