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Jacquemontia verticillata

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Urban

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Belize
• Brazil
• Cuba
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Nov-Dec (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Dec (Puerto Rico)

Slightly woody slender twiner with downy stems, mucronate leaves downy above, tomentose beneath to 40mm long. Axillary umbels, cymes or corymbs with small bracts, of purple-pink, lavender or white flowers to 6mm long, pubescent sepals to 4mm long, deeply lobed corolla to 5mm long. 4-8-valved brown glabrous capsule to 4mm long

Further References

• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FB
• SAFIO
• Kew