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Petrea blanchetiana

Botanic Family

Verbenaceae

Author

Schauer

Common Names

• Kwagi Tupa (Kuna)
• Sanango Sacha (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Distrito Federal
• Pará
• Pernambuco
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Leeward Islands
• Panama
• Peru
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Tropical wet forest
• primary & secondary forest
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec Apr (Panama)

Twining scabrous shrub or liana to 7m with tetragonal lenticellate branches. Glabrous or scabrous coriaceous leaves to 350mm x 165mm, pilose-puberulent bneath. Terminal or axillary lax many-flowered racemes to 300mm+ long, with bract, 8mm long purple flowers. Calyx tube to 6.5mm x 7mm with triangular teeth to 2.5mm long, lavender lobes to 25mm x 9mm, 50m wide purple corolla, corolla tube to 18mm x 14mm, pubescent within, puberulent lobes to 20mm x 20mm. Fruiting calyx lobes to 35mm x 15mm, shiny white fruit surrounded by silver-white winged sepals, wings to 25mm x 10mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew