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Marsdenia altissima

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Dugand

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Mato Grosso
• Bahia
• Minas Gerais-Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge
• scrubland
• woodland
• thickets
• clearings

Flowering Times

• May-Jun (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep

Canopy liana or woody tomentose twiner. Purplish leaves to 100mm x 100mm with lobes. Many-flowered umbelliform cymes with bracts, yellowish-green to crimson or crimson-brown 50mm flowers maroon inside, edged green & green outside, calyx with lobes 5mm long, lobes purple, fleshy purple crown. Pubescent green fruit to 300mm long,

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• FB
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• The Plant List
• Botanicus
• Kew
• Menninger 1970
• Rusby