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Columnea scandens

Botanic Family

Gesneriaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cuba
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• woodland
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

Scandent epiphytic & lithophytic subshrub or climbing shrub with quadrangular pubescent to strigose stems becoming glabrescent. Villous serrated leaves to 60mm x 20mm. Scarlet-hairy solitary axillary 85mm red or yellow flowers, with bracts to 4mm long, corolla & calyx pubescent, green calyx to 13mm x 3mm, yellow, orange or red corolla to 85mm long upper lobes erect & basal lobes reflexed. PIlose white berry 10mm diameter.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO
• USNH