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Bonamia sulphurea

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Brandegee) Myint & D.B. Ward

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Riverside thickets
• shrubland
• desert thorn forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Aug-Oct (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

Perennial shrubby twiner with glabrescent stems. Coriaceous leaves to 75mm x 45mm, glabrescent above & brown tomentose beneath. Few-flowered axillary cymes with small bracts, white flowers, coriaceous sepals to 13mm x 7mm, brown-tomentose outside, white corolla to 20mm long. Fruit capsule with persistent sepals.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew