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Matelea tigrina

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Grisebach) Woodson

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• E. Cuba
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Oct (Cuba)

Fruiting Times

High-climbing twiner with hispid stems. Glabrescent leaves to 50mm x17mm. Few-flowered extra-axillary fascicles or corymbs, hispid calyx, sepals to 2mm x 1.2mm, greenish-brown corolla to 7mm long with lobes to 4.5mm, 5-lobed corona.

Further References

• Mobot
• CPC
• The Plant List 2
• SAFIO
• NYBG
• Plantae Wrighianae
• Kew