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Echites umbellatus

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Jacquin

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Bahamas
• Belize
• Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• SW. Colombia
• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward islands
• SE. Mexico
• Turks & Caicos Islands
• S. Florida - U.S.A.

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• roadside
• coastal dunes
• shrubland
• hedgerows
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Oct
• Nov

Glabrous woody twining vine to 3m with leathery glabrous mucronate leaves 120mm x 80mm. 50mm greenish-white, yellow or white flowers with green tube with bracts to 3mm long, in lateral or sub-terminal panicles or umbels, sometimes solitary, calyx lobes to 5mm long, corolla tube to 60mm x 2mm, swollen in middle with lobes to 30mm long, divaricate glabrous yellow-green fruit to 260mm x 5mm, tuberous roots

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• USDA
• NAF
• JAA
• FOSEUS
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Plantae Wrightianae