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Jacquemontia sphaerostigma

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Cavanilles) Rusby

Common Names

• Jumbee Vine (Island of Nevis)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• Parana
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forest edge
• thickets
• savanna
• scrubland
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Dec (Paraguay)

Fruiting Times

• Dec (Paraguay)

Annual herbaceous pubescent twining liana with villous stellate down. Ternate leaves to 80mm x 30mm. Few to many-flowered axillary cymes with bracts 2mm long, of 12mm long blue flowers, sepals 6mm long, corolla to 12mm long. 4mm diameter 8-valved capsule

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• RSNRV
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• JAA
• PPIO
• Kew