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Jacquemontia solanifolia

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Hallier f.

Common Names

• Patate grand bois

Geographical Habitats

• Dominican Republic
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Windward islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal forest
• coastal thickets
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Nov-Feb (Puerto Rico)
• Sep-Oct (Antilles)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Feb (Purto Rico)

Slightly woody slender twining liana pubescent on young parts, with cymes or solitary pink or reddish-purple flowers to 25mm long with exserted genitals with minute bracts, sepals to 4mm long, 5-lobed red-purple corolla to 25mm long, brown 8-valved capsule 8mm diameter with persistent sepals, mucronate leaves sparsely white-hairy to 60mm long

Further References

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