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Critonia billbergiana

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Beurling) R.M. King & H. Robinson

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Nicaragua
• Mexico
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge

Flowering Times

• Nov-Apr (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Apr (Nicaragua)

Climbing or procumbent woody vine with striate glabrate branches. Glabrous dentate leaves to 120mm x 50mm. Pubescent panicles, 6mm white flowers, phyllaries in 4 series, corolla to 5mm long. Pubescent achenes to 4mm long with sordid pappus

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Standley