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Mesechites trifidus
Mesechites trifidus
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (Jacquin) Müller of Aargau
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- N. Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Amazonas - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Moist forest
- secondary vegetation
- riverside
- shrubland
- woodland
- coastal
- thickets
Flowering Times
- Nov (Bolivia)
- Sep (Colombia)
Fruiting Times
- Dec-Apr Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
High climbing glabrous twiner to 6m with purplish stems, young parts & lower leaf puberulent. Mucronulate leaves white downy to 120mm x 80mm. Axillary or subterminal racemes or cymes 35mm long or solitary flowers with mucronate bracts, 25mm wide fragrant flowers white inside, pink outside with greenish centre & tube, white lobes or purple flowers, calyx 3mm x 4mm, calyx lobes to 5mm long, corolla tube to 25mm x 1.5mm, lobes to 15mm long, limb 20mm wide. Glabrous twin pods to 400mm long green turning reddish-brown
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- de Candolle
- G. Don
- Botanicus
- NAF
- JAA
- Fedde
- Kew
- FOPE
- HUBM
- Standley
- Rusby