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Coccoloba ovata

Botanic Family

Polygonaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

• Pata de Ciervo

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Inundated riverside
• forest
• marsh
• riverine forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Treelet, tree, shrub or scandent glabrous twining shrub with ferrugineous-tomentose branches, coriaceous leaves to 250mm long, racemes to 250mm long, yellow or white flowers with bracts to 2.5mm in terminal spikes or racemes, lobes to 4mm long, red fruit 15mm x 7mm crowned with persistent calyx lobes

Timber used in building

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• Engler
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• JAA