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Blepharodon pictum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Vahl) W.D. Stevens

Common Names

• Painted-leaved Cynanchum

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Alagoas
• Amazonas
• Amapá
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Distrito Federal
• Espírito Santo
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Paraíba
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Norte
• Rondônia
• Roraima
• São Paulo
• Sergippe
• Tocantins - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Margin of marsh
• riverbank
• shrubland
• disturbed areas
• dense forest
• scrubland
• rainforest
• caatinga
• savanna

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• may
• Jul

Glabrous or pubescent twining subshrub or shrub. Glabrescent leaves to 75mm x 34mm with leaf nerves & veins purplish. Axtra-axillary umbels or cymes of 3-10 green-cream flowers with a white centre, corolla villous inside, sepals to 2.2mm x 1.2mm, corolla tube to 3.5mm long, lobes to 10mm x 0.6mm, corona lobes to 40mm x 30mm. Yellow follicles to 27.5mm x 9mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• NHN
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Kew
• Fl. do Brasil