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Forsteronia spicata

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Jacquin) G. Meyer

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Dry forest
• wet forest
• riverside forest
• forest edge
• shrubland
• woodland
• thickets

Flowering Times

• May-Aug

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Jan

Liane, twining shrub or tree with glabrescent branches. Mucronate leaves in 2 rows, ferrugineous-downy beneath or glabrate 160mm x 90mm. Terminal or axillary cymes, thyrses or racemes with bracts to 5mm long of slightly fragrant 10mm white flowers, tomentulose calyx lobes to 4mm long, glabrous corolla tube to 2mm x 1mm opening to 2.5mm with lobes 4mm long. Very hairy follicles to 200mm long becoming glabrate

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• NAF
• Kew
• Standley
• Plantae Wrightiana