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Manettia lygistum

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Swartz

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Antilles
• Cuba
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Primary rain forest
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Apr
• Jul

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous twiner or subshrub with coriaceous leaves glabrous above villous on veins beneath 45mm x 30mm. Few-flowered axillary cymes or solitary deep violet, white or blue striped flowers to 10mm long, 4-lobed calyx to 2.5mm long, corolla tube 12mm long with lobes 4mm long, fruit a blue or blackish coriaceous capsule 4mm diameter

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• JAA
• Plantae Wrightianae
• Kew