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Oxypetalum cordifolium
Oxypetalum cordifolium
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (Ventenat) Schlechter
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Minas Gerais
- Paraná
- Rio de Janeiro
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- Guatemala
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands
Natural Habitats
- Coastal
- forest
- disturbed forest
- scrubland
- riverside
Flowering Times
- Sep-Oct (Costa Rica)
- Jan (Colombia)
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous high-climbing twining shrub with puberulous stems becoming glabrescent and milky sap. Downy leaves becoming glabrescent to 120mm x 90mm, glands at base of petioles. Erect axillary & terminal 1-2 flowered cymes or corymbs of greenish-yellow flowers with white spurs or reddish flowers hairy outside, villous bracteoles to to 2mm long, calyx segments villous to 3mm long, corolla to 27mm long, tube 4mm long, lobes 20mm long, fruit to 105mm long, glabrous follicles joined at base to 85mm long
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- de Candolle
- Fedde
- VOPR
- SAFIO
- G. Don
- Kew