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Manettia coccinea

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Aublet) Forsyth f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Cuba
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Jamaica
• S. Mexico
• Peru
• St Vincent
• Suriname
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• Forested riverside
• shrubland
• forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Aug

Twining glabrous or minutely puberulent herbaceous vine with large glabrous or scaberulous leaves to 100mm x 50mm. Axillary cymes or racemes or solitary 14mm scarlet flowers or white spotted red with yellow hairs in throat of corolla, 8-lobed calyx lobes 14mm long, barbate pink or dull red corolla, glabrous outside, 28mm long with scarlet lobes recurved to 10mm long, red corolla. Capsule 12mm x 8mm

Further References

• NYBG
• Mobot
• Rub Col
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• FOPE
• Standley
• Kew