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Hexasepalum apiculatum

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Willdenow) Delprete & J.H. Kirkbride

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Curacao
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal shrubland
• lakeside
• montane areas
• savanna

Flowering Times

• All year (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

Climbing, creeping or erect herb or shrub, branches glabrous, scabrous serrate leaves to 60mm x 8mm, hairy or clothed with velvety down, leaves downy above, scabrous beneath or glabrous both surfaces terminating in a bristle, axillary solitary flowers or fascicles with 2-8 flowers, 4-lobed calyx, white or blue corolla to 14mm long, white tube to 8mm long x 1.5mm diameter with violet, white, pink or violet-spotted lobes to 5mm long, hairy or glabrous ribbed fruit to 4mm long, 3 longitudinal ribs

Further References

• Botanicus
• Rub Col
• Kew
• Flora Costaricensis
• FOTA
• SAFIO