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Commicarpus scandens

Botanic Family

Nyctaginaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Standley

Common Names

• Climbing Wortclub
• Pega-pollo
• Easy-to-break
• Rat Ears

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Bahamas
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Turks & Caicos Islands
• Arizona
• California
• New Mexico
• Texas
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• streamside
• pasture
• disturbed areas
• coastal thickets
• montane forest
• wasteland
• sand dunes

Flowering Times

• Jan & Sep (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jan (Puerto Rico)

Herbaceous glabrous clambering perennial liana or creeper to 4m with glabrous or puberulent branches. Succulent leaves glabrous above, puberulent beneath 65mm x 45mm. 5-12 flowered axillary umbels to 45mm long with green bracts to 3mm long, of greenish-yellow, white or violet flowers to 8mm long, glabrous green calyx or with a pink tinge inside to 1.5mm long. 10-ribbed glabrous green or black anthocarps to 13mm x 2mm with a ring of sticky glands on distal portion.

Further References

• Mobot
• Botanicus
• FNA
• Mobot
• VOPR
• FNA
• HUBM
• USNH
• FOG
• Gleason & Moldenke
• SAFIO
• Schlechtendahlia