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Funastrum clausum
Funastrum clausum
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (Jacquin) Schlechter
- Propagation
- S.
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Alagoas
- Ceará
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad
- Uruguay
- Florida
- Texas
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Winward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Riverside
- forest
- roots in water
- disturbed areas
- desert
- seasonally inundated areas
- coastal
- hedges
- thickets
- shrubland
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous glabrous or pubescent high-climbing twining subshrub or erect shrub to 4m. Puberulous leathery leaves to 70mm long becoming glabrescent , leaves white downy on margins & middle nerve or glabrous. Many-flowered extra-axillary umbels or cymes of scented white flowers tinged pale green lobes to 7mm long, downy calyx, young stems hairy, becoming glabrous, peduncles & calyxes downy, 5-lobed white corolla to 18mm across with fimbriate-ciliate lobes. Tomentose hoary follicle becoming glabrate to 80mm long x 10mm.
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- de Candolle
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- USDA
- FOSEUS
- USNH
- SAFIO
- Standley
- Kew