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Metastelma decipiens

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Schlechter

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cuba
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• coastal thickets
• woodland

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Slender sometimes twining high-climbing herbaceous glabrous vine to 8m, with glabrous stems. Mucronulate glabrous leaves or sparsely pubescent to 20mm x 10mm. Few-flowered extra-axillary or terminal cymes of 3-7 greenish white flowers, pale green outside, white or cream inside corolla to 3.5mm long with 3mm long lobes. Glabrous green follicles with reddish tinge 55mm long,

Further References

• Mobot
• RSNRV
• VOPR
• SAFIO
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew