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Coutarea hexandra

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Jacquin) K. Schumann

Common Names

• Quina (El Salvador)

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles

Natural Habitats

• Thickets

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Climber, shrub or small tree to 5m. Lenticellate glabrous branches. Leaves to 120mm long, glabrous above & pilose beneath. 3-flowered terminal & axilary cymes, calyx with 6 lobes to 12mm long, white or yellowish corolla often tinged purple to 75mm long with sjort lobes. Dark brown capsule 35mm x 20mm.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• Standley