1. Home
2. Operculina hamiltonii

Operculina hamiltonii

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(G. Don) D.F. Austin & Staples

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Piaui
• Rodonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• SE. Mexico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed areas
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Sep-Dec (Brazil)

Fruiting Times

• Nov (Dominica)

Twining glabrous liana with 50mm cream, yellow or pink flowers with 2 bracts to 10mm long, in axillary inflorescences of solitary flowers, mucronate sepals to 30mm long, yellow corolla, brown capsule 10mm long enveloped by calyx, winged stems petioles & peduncles, recurved glabrous or glabrescent leaves to 90mm x 50mm sometimes 3-lobed

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• P & R 1997
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• JAA
• Smithsonian
• Kew