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Operculina ventricosa

Botanic Family

Convolvulaceae

Author

(Bertero) Peter

Common Names

• Hoofdpijnblad ( Dutch Antilles)
• Liane Blanche (Guadeloupe)
• Liane d'argent (Guadeloupe)
• Liane serpent (Martinique)
• Liane bord de mer (Martinique)

Geographical Habitats

• Leeward Islands
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Glabrous or glabrescent woody twiner with 80mm long white or cream flowers solitary or in cymes with bracts to 30mm long, glabrescent calyx, mucronate sepals to 35mm long, white or cream corona to 75mm long, capsule 30mm long with accrescent & persistent sepals, mucronate leaves glabrous above, glabrous or puberulous beneath to 160mm long

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• JAA
• Kew