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Cosmibuena grandiflora

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Ruiz & Pavon) Rusby

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Roraima- Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Primary forest
• disturbed forest
• montane forest
• riverside
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Hemi-epiphytic glabrous shrub, tree or liana to 9m. Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 140mm x 80mm. Fragrant 140mm long white flowers in terminal 3-5 flowered corymbs or cymes, bronze red outside, 5-toothed calyx to 12mm long, oblong corolla lobes to 32mm x 11mm, corolla white or tinged pink outside, tube to 90mm x 5mm with lobes to 30mm long. Fruit an oblong capsule 50mm x 12mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Rub Ven
• Mobot
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Rub Col
• NAF
• FOPE
• Standley
• Kew