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Forsteronia pubescens

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

A. de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Ceara
• Goias
• Mato Grosso Norte
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge
• seasonally inundated forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Dec

High-climbing twining liana with lenticellate stems. Leaves to 100mm x 60mm, glabrate above & puberulent beneath. Puberulent terminal cymes with bracts to 6mm long, white to yellow-green flowers with sharp fragrance to 5mm long, calyx lobes to 2mm long, puberulent without, corolla tube to 1.2m long glabrous without & villous within, lobes to 5mm long. Glabrous thin brown to black follicles to 270mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• Rodriguesia
• Kew
• FOPE