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Notopleura parasitica

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Swartz) Hammel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Colombia
• Cuba
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• GuyanaHispaniola
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest

Flowering Times

• Sep (Nic) May
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Apr
• Sep
• Oct (Nic)

Epiphytic, parasitic glabrous vine, shrub or herb with terminal & axillary cymes or panicles of 8mm white flowers, throat of corolla downy inside, red fruit maturing black to 6mm diameter, succulent leaves

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Botanicus
• Kew