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Cnestidium rufescens

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

Planchon

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• riverside
• secondary vegetation
• gallery forest
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Jun (Nicaragua)

Liana, tree or scandent shrub to 12m with velvety pubescent young twigs. 5-9 coriaceous leaflets 80mm x 50mm glabrescent above velvety pubescent beneath. Axillary & terminal panicles to 150mm long of 4mm green to cream flowers, velvety pubescent calyx 3mm long, white petals 4mm long. Curved brown-tomentose 20mm long x 10mm orange fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• FOG
• Standley