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Coccoloba acuminata

Botanic Family

Polygonaceae

Author

Kunth

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• SE. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• disturbed areas
• seasonally inundated areas
• riversides
• coastal

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Tree, shrub or glabrous vine with glabrescent branchlets. Leaves to 200mm long, puberulent benneath, glabrous above. 450mm long terminal spikes or slender racemes of white flowers, lobes 1mm long. Pink or bright red fruit to 8mm diameter turning white

Further References

• Neotrop
• Mobot
• FB
• Engler
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• FOPE