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Duranta costaricensis

Botanic Family

Verbenaceae

Author

(Donnell-Smith) Standley

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Chiapas - Mexico
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Thicket
• montane thickets
• forest

Flowering Times

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

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• May
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec

Spiny shrub, tree or liana with leaves to 70mm long, puberulent or glabrate above & villous beneath. yellow flowers with pale blue lobes or white flowers, pilose calyx tube to 6mm long, puberulent corolla to 15mm long. Pale yellow fruit.

Further References

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