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Operculina pteripes

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(G. Don) O'Donell

Common Names

• Mechoacán (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• W. Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist scrub
• fences
• bushes
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Sep-Dec

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Feb

Perennial herbaceous glabrous tuberous twining vine with angled branches. Mucronate triangular leaves mostly glabrous to 130mm x 80mm. One-12 flowered axillary cymes with bractlets 10mm long, 80mm pink or purple flowers, winged peduncles, brick-red sepals to 26mm x 20mm, red, purple, orange or salmon downy corolla to 70mm x 10mm, tube 50mm long. Capsule surrounded by sepals, to 40mm wide

Further References

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