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Ibatia maritima

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Decaisne

Common Names

• Corne de Cabri (Haiti)
• Curamaguey (Dominican Republic)

Geographical Habitats

• Brazil
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward islands

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• coastal forest
• savanna
• montane woodland
• coastal shrubland

Flowering Times

• Oct-Nov (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Mar (Puerto Rico)

Tomentose woody high-climbing twining shrub. Leaves to 80mm x 45mm, densely tomentose beneath, upper surface pubescent. Sub-axillary cymes, fascicles or umbels of maroon or white flowers, corolla greenish to 6mm diameter, hairy inside, 5-lobed corona Tomentose spiny follicles 80mm x 45mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO
• Kew