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Metastelma parviflorum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Swartz) Schultes

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bahamas
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Dominican Republic
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Paraguay
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal forest
• montane shrubland
• secondary & disturbed vegetation
• riverside
• montane forest
• dry forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Oct-May (Puerto Rico)
• Jul-Aug (Colombia)
• Mar (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Apr (Puerto Rico)
• Aug (Colombia)

Twining herbaceous shrub or high-climber with corky glabrous stems, downy branches. Glabrous or puberulous mucronate leaves to 50mm x 30mm. Extra-axillary many-flowered umbels or cymes of small greenish-white flowers, pale green in centre, calyx 1.5mm wide with puberulous lobes 1.25mm long, 5-parted corolla glabrous outside puberulous inside to 100mm x 3.5mm, greenish outside, lobes to 3mm x 1mm. Glabrous follicles to 70mm x 4.5mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO
• NYBG
• Rusby
• Fedde
• Kew