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Cordia polycephala
Cordia polycephala
- Botanic Family
- Boraginaceae
- Author
- (Lamarck) I. M. Johnston
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Lesser Antilles
- Mexico
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- disturbed areas
- coastal forest
- savanna edge
- secondary forest
- riverside
- forest edge
- montane areas
- thickets
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Dec
Sometimes scandent clambering woody shrub to 5m, shrub or tree, hairy stems. Serrated leaves rusty-hairy beneath, scabrous above 120mm x 50mm. Terminal cymes or lateral & axillary spikes, panicles, cymes or corymbs of white scented flowers to 5mm long x 1.5mm, throat of corolla pilose, dentate calyx strigose-hairy to 3mm long with mucronate lobes 0.5mm long, 1mm calyx limb villous inside, white corolla 5mm long. Red drupe 5mm long 4mm diameter, glabrous with persistent calyx.
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- JAA
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Standley