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Forsteronia myriantha
Forsteronia myriantha
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- Donnell-Smith
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- S. Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- coastal dunes
- evergreen tropical forest
- primary forest
- riverside
- floodplain forest
- secondary forest
- thickets
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Large woody liane with glabrescent stems. Leaves glabrous or slightly pilosulous beneath 100mm x 45mm. Terminal many-flowered thyrses of 5mm greenish yellow to creamy white flowers odourless when first opening but becoming strongly sweetly scented at sunrise, puberulent calyx lobes to 1.2mm long, glabrous corolla tube 1mm x 0.7mm opening to 1.7mm with lobes to 3mm long. Brown follicles to 250mm long
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- The Plant List 2
- NAF
- Kew
- Standley