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Blakea mortoniana

Botanic Family

Melastomataceae

Author

(Wurdack) Penneys & Judd

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Ecuador

Natural Habitats

• Cloud forest

Flowering Times

• Aug
• Oct (Colombia) Jul (Ecuador)

Fruiting Times

Cauliflorous scandent shrub or tree to 10m with glabrate branches. Mucronulate glabrous leaves to 200mm x 130mm. 16-60 flowered fascicles with bracts 3.2mm x 5mm, white flowers, calyx lobes 3.2mm x 2.7mm, 6 glabrous white petals 9mm x 6.3mm.

Further References

• NYBG
• Gleason & Moldenke
• CPLC
• Mobot