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Combretum cacoucia

Botanic Family

Combretaceae

Author

Exell ex Sandwith

Common Names

• Rabo de Arara (Brazil)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated forest
• riverside
• coastal
• thickets
• swamps

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Large woody shrub or liana with puberulous young branches & glabrous leaves to 200mm x 100mm, pilose on upper midrib. Terminal & axillary woolly upright spikes to 500mm long with bracts to 5mm long, green & orange to red flowers, faintly scented, 5-lobed tomentose calyx to 40mm long with 5 teeth, tube to 10mm x 9mm, 5 red petals. 5-ridged pale green fruits 60mm x 20mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FOPE
• HUBM
• FOTA
• Gleason & Moldenke