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Cordia spinescens

Botanic Family

Boraginaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverine
• secondary vegetation
• forest edge
• disturbed areas
• thickets
• hedges

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec Jul-Sep (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Scandent shrub to 4.5m, tree or liana, recurved or drooping branches rusty-tomentose. Denticulated leaves to 150mm x 75mm scabrous or pilose above, rusty-tomentose beneath. Terminal & axillary scabrous or hispid spikes, racemes or panicles to 300mm long with spikes to 80mm x 8mm of white to yellowish flowers, whitish calyx with rusty hairs 4mm x 3mm glabrous inside, white corolla to 8mm long glabrous outside villous inside, throat of corolla pilose. Red to black fruit, 4mm long, old petioles become spinescent

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FOPE
• Standley