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Chomelia tenuiflora

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• forest edge
• forest

Flowering Times

• May

Fruiting Times

Sometimes scandent tree to 5m, sparsely spiny with spines to 15mm long. Leaves to 50mm x 25mm, pilose above becoming glabrate, strigose beneath. Axillary solitary 30mm creamy white flowers or fascicles with calyx 2.5mm long, strigose outside & lobes 1.5mm long, white corolla strigose outside with tube to 9mm long & lobes to 5mm long

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• Mobot
• FOPE