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Coccoloba excelsa

Botanic Family

Polygonaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Acre
• Alagoas
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Mato Grosso
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• seasonally inundated areas
• coastal
• secondary thickets
• wooded savanna
• forest edge

Flowering Times

• Oct-Jan (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Twining woody glabrous liana or tree with scrambling branches, young branches ferruginous-puberulent or glabrous, tendrils. Coriaceous leaves to 220mm long, glabrous above & pilose beneath. 1-3 flowered racemes of whitish flowers to 3mm wide, 5mm long, tube 0.5mm, in axillary & terminal racemes to 125mm long, prominent unpleasant smell, brown-pubescent when young. Green fruit turning purple-black to 10mm x 7mm

Further References

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