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Blepharodon mucronatum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Schlechtendahl) Decaisne

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Open areas
• wooded slopes
• secondary vegetation
• thickets
• disturbed vegetation

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jul
• Nov
• Dec

Herbaceous twining subshrub to 8m with leaves to 70mm x 20mm. 2mm green-white or cream fragrant flowers in extra-axillary few-flowered umbels, greenish corolla 10mm wide. Follicle to 90mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• Standley
• Kew
• MNHN