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Funastrum glaucum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Kunth) Schlechter

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest streamside
• forest edge
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Jan (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Sep (Colombia)

Glabrous twining shrub to 4.5m with mucronulate thickish leaves to 60mm x 40mm. Many-flowered terminal umbels subtended by small bracts, white flowers, lobed calyx with lobes 1mm long, lobed corolla, fringed corolla lobes 6mm long. Glabrous brown fruits 90mm x 15mm, foul odour.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Rusby
• Kew