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Manettia barbata

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Oersted

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Roadside thicket
• secondary thicket
• montane areas
• evergreen forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• Nov
• Dec Nov-Jan (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Nov Jan & Mar (Costa Rica)

Herbaceous twining vine or glabrous subshrub to 3m. Glabrous leaves to 100mm x 30mm. Axillary cymes to 15mm long or solitary white flowers, 4-lobed calyx 2mm x 1.2mm, white glabrous corolla with tube 6mm x 2mm & lobes to 3mm long. Capsule to 8mm x 7mm with persistent calyx to 1.5mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• Flora Costaricensis
• Standley
• Kew