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Jacquemontia cumanensis

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth) Kuntze

Common Names

• Thicket Clustervine

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• NE. Colombia
• Leeward Islands
• Netherlands Antilles
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles

Natural Habitats

• Dry forest
• thickets
• coastal forest

Flowering Times

• Sep-Mar (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Mar (Puerto Rico)

Slightly woody twining rusty-tomentose climber with axillary dichasia or cymes with small bracts, of violet-blue flowers with white lines inside to 25mm diameter, sepals to 8mm x 8mm, glabrous blue corolla with mucronate petals to 16mm long. Glabrous brown 8-valved capsule 5mm diameter enveloped in calyx to 5mm long, tomentose leaves to 40mm long usually mucronate

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• JAA
• G. Don
• Kew