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Matelea obliqua
Matelea obliqua
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (Jacquin) Woodson
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Canada
- Alabama
- District of Columbia
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Missouri
- Mississippi
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- West Virginia - USA
Natural Habitats
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial hairy high-climbing twining herb , hairy stems. Thin villous leaves to 200mm x 160mm. Several-flowered cymes or umbels of green outside, dark purple inside foetid flowers 25mm diameter, puberulent calyx lobes 3mm long, dark greenish-purple corolla to 15mm long, lobes glabrous inside & puberulent outside to 14mm long. Puberulent follicles to 100mm long.
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- USDA
- Botanicus
- FOSEUS
- Kew