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Centropogon cornutus
Centropogon cornutus
- Botanic Family
- Campanulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Druce
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Distrito Federal
- Espirito Santo
- Goiás
- Mato Grosso
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Pernambuco
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rondonia
- Roraima
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Leeward Islands
- Lesser Antilles
- Mexico
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest understorey
- riverside
- disturbed areas
- swamp
- shrublands
- forest remnant
- humid forest
- woodland
- forest edge
- montane forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Glabrous shrub, subshrub or herbaceous scrambling vine to 3m. Glabrous dentate to denticulate leaves glabrous or scaberulent beneath 200mm x 65mm. Inflorescence axillary of 20 flowers to 300mm long with glabrous bracteoles to 10mm long, solitary pink or orange-scarlet to bluish-red glabrous flowers to 80mm x 7mm, denticulate sepals to 15mm long, falcate corolla tube 41mm long x 10mm diameter, 2 major triangulate falcate lobes 25mm x 7mm, upper lobes curled outwards into a ring, white filament tube to 60mm long. Glabrous edible berries to 15mm diameter.
Edible fruit, leaves boiled & eaten
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- Fedde
- Botanicus
- NAF
- FOPE
- Kew