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Eumachia microdon

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(de Candolle) Delprete & J.H. Kirkbride

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Cayman Islands
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Peru
• Hispaniola
• Leeward islands
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• secondary vegetation
• riverside
• disturbed areas
• woodland
• coastal shrubs
• montane areas
• savanna

Flowering Times

• May-Sep (Nic.) Apr-Dec (Puerto Rico) May-Aug (Costa Rica) Aug (Cuba)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Dec (Nic.) Jan Jul-Mar (Puerto Rico) Jul-Oct & Jan (Costa Rica) Aug-Nov (Cuba)

Woody glabrous clambering shrub to 5m or tree with glabrous stems or with thin hairs. Leaves to 150mm x 60mm glabrous above, glabrous or puberulent on veins beneath. Terminal few-flowered panicles or axillary corymbs with bracts to 1.4mm long of 10mm very fragrant white or yellowish flowers, calyx tube to 2mm x 3mm with 5 minute lobes, white corolla with tube to 10mm x 2mm glabrous outside, 5 lobes to 6mm x 2.2mm, fruit orange or red to 10mm x 7mm,

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Rub Col
• Flora Costaricensis
• SAFIO
• Standley
• Kew