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Distimake quinquefolius
Distimake quinquefolius
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) A.R. Simões & Staples
Common Names
- Batatilla Blanca
- Patate Marron (Guadaloupe)
- Bejuco Bochinche (Dominican Republic)
- Campanilla (Dominican Republic)
Geographical Habitats
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Amazonas
- Santa Catarina - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Florida
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- subtropical forest
- riverine forest
- thickets
- shrubland
- pasture
- lakeside
- montane forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial glabrous herbaceous procumbent or twining liana with 30mm long yellow or whitish solitary flowers or in dichasia with triangular bracts to 1.5mm long, 2 glabrous outer sepals to 5.5mm x 3mm, 3 inner sepals to 8mm x 3mm, white or cream corolla to 25mm long, 10mm long glabrous 4-valved pale brown beaked capsule with yellow veining, quinate palmate mucronate glabrous serrated leaves, 5 glabrous leaflets, middle leaflet to 70mm x 20mm, hairy stems, downy petioles
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- JAA
- USNH
- SAFIO
- Kew
- Standley