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Hillia parasitica

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Jacquin

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Hilia
• Flor de Sierra
• Tibey Trepador

Geographical Habitats

• Bahia
• Ceará
• Espirito Santo
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Bolivia
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Guadaloupe
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Mexico
• Peru
• Venezuela
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Isles

Natural Habitats

• Scrub forest
• forest
• dense forest
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Sep All year (Puerto Rico)

Epiphytic glabrous clambering shrub to 6m with adventitious roots, herb or tree. Glabrous coriaceous leaves 140mm x 60mm. Solitary terminal fragrant white or yellowish flowers, calyx 4mm long, corolla tube 120mm x 4mm with 6 reflexed lobes to 40mm long, cream bracts. 50mm long, green capsule becoming brown to 120mm x 10mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970 : Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• Rub Ven
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• VOPR
• Rub Col
• Smithsonian
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Kew