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Chomelia paniculata

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Bartling ex de Candolle) Steyermark

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Guyana
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• seasonally inundated areas
• forest remnants
• lakeside
• montane areas. Medicinal uses

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• Dec

Spiny shrub, tree or liane to 15m, sometimes armed with spines. Pilose young branches. Leaves to 110mm long, glabrous or glabrate above, tomentose beneath. Many-flowered axillary cymes of fragrant white flowers, corolla with silky tomentum outside to 18mm long with lobes to 2.5mm long, strigillose outside. Glabrate black fruit to 8mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Kew
• FOPE