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Hillia loranthoides

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Standley

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Chiapas
• Oaxaca - Mexico
• Guatemala
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Riverside trees
• moist forest
• primary forest
• evergreen montane forest

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Aug
• Oct Feb-May (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Oct
• Dec Jan & May (Costa Rica)

Large epiphytic shrub with vining glabrous branches. Coriaceous leaves to 100mm x 45mm. Solitary terminal white night-scented flowers subtended by 2 bracts to 25mm, flowers to 70mm long, calyx cream flushed pink, minute calyx tube with 4 lobes to 10mm x 2mm, white or cream corolla with tube to 60mm x 5mm, 4 lobes to 25mm x 16mm. Fruit capsule to 80mm x 10mm

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• Flora Costaricensis
• Standley
• Kew