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Blakea parasitica

Botanic Family

Melastomataceae

Author

(Aublet) D. Don

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Maranhão
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Wet forest
• forest
• floodplain forest
• primary & secondary forest
• montane rain forest
• riverside
• inundated forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Epiphytic scandent stem-rooting shrub, liana or small tree with fleshy branches. Glabrous mucronate leaves to 100mm long. Fascicles of 2-3 red, pink or violet flowers with glabrous bracts to 8mm long, petals 17mm x 9mm, calyx tube 1.7mm long, sepals 3.3mm long. Red fruit 8mm wide

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Mobot
• FB
• NYBG
• Gleason & Moldenke