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Gonolobus rostratus

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Vahl) Schultes

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Ceará
• Paraná
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Jamaica
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Trinidad
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest
• coastal forest
• shrubland
• montane woodland.

Flowering Times

• Jun (Jamaica
• Trinidad)

Fruiting Times

• Sep

High-climbing twining woody hairy puberulous subshrub to 6m with stiff hairs on branches. Hairy leaves to 85mm x 55mm. Extra-axillary many-flowered racemes or umbels of green flowers with yellow or purplish-red centre to 25mm x 14mm, calyx to 6mm long, 5-parted corolla pilose outside to 15mm long, 5-lobed corona. Yellow-green glabrous follicles to 110mm x 60mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• BMJ
• SAFIO
• Kew