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Hexasepalum sarmentosum

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Swartz) Deprete & J.H. Kirkbride

Common Names

• Chelele (Andiri)

Geographical Habitats

• Tropical Africa & Tropical America

Natural Habitats

• Rain forest edge
• shrubland
• thickets
• pasture
• disturbed areas
• coastal
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jul-Apr (Puerto Rico) Dec-May (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Apr (Puerto Rico) Dec-May (Costa Rica)

Climbing, scandent or decumbent villous herb, shrub or subshrub to 4m with winged hairy quadrangular scabrid branches. Small trumpet-like flowers in axillary fascicles, subterminal clusters or solitary, 4 sepals, calyx lobes to 2.5mm long, white corolla to 2.5mm long x 1mm, lobes to 0.5mm long, fruit a hairy schizocarp to 5mm x 2.8mm with persistent sepals 2mm long, leaves 60mm x 25mm scabrous above, scabrous & puberulent beneath with serrulate margins

Medicinal uses.

Further References

• Neotrop
• Darwinian
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Kew
• Flora Costaricensis
• FOL
• Ichigawa
• SAFIO