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Doyerea emetocathartica

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

Grosourdy ex Bello

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• NE. Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward islands
• Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• thickets
• coastal forest & shrubs
• scrubland

Flowering Times

• May
• Jan
• Mar
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Mar (Mexico)
• Apr (Brazil)

Dioecious fleshy herbaceous caudiciform simple-tendril climber with 3-lobed leaves glabrous & scabrid above, pubescent beneath. Yellow to cream or pale orange unisexual 1.5mm flowers, tube to 1mm long, pilose lobes to 1.2mm long in axillary cymes, orange berry to 20mm maturing red with white streaks & rows of dots

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• USNH
• SAFIO
• NYBG
• NHN