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Jacquemontia havanensis

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Urban

Common Names

• Aguinaldo de Costa
• Havana Clustervine

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Belize
• Cayman Islands
• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• SE. Mexico
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Florida
• Virgin Islands - USA

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland
• shrubland
• coastal thickets
• thorn scrub
• waste areas

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Slightly woody sprawling glabrous twining plants with pubescent branches. Sparsely pubescent coriaceous mucronate leaves to 50mm long. Axillary cymes of white flowers sometimes with pink tinge at margins to 13mm long with bracts, sepals to 3.3mm long, deeply lobed white or pale pink-purple corolla to 15mm x 12mm. 8-valved green to brown capsule 6mm long with persistent sepals.

Further References

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