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Columnea oerstediana

Botanic Family

Gesneriaceae

Author

Klotzsch ex Oersted

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Brazil
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Tropical moist forest
• mountains

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Oct

Scandent & pendant epiphyte with strigose branches. Coriaceous toothed leaves ti 15mm long, glabrous above & strigose beneath. 70mm scarlet flowers, yellow at tips, pilose gren calyx lobes 15mm long. Immature fruit red

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Standley