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Petrea bracteata

Botanic Family

Verbenaceae

Author

Steudel

Common Names

• Hajaubadillo Saléroe
• Hayariballi
• Parapo
• Sandpaper-vine

Geographical Habitats

• Amazonas
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Rondonia - Brazil
• Colombia
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• cut-over woodland
• riverside
• swamp forest
• floodplain

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Scabrous twining liana to 30m or shrub to 2m with densely puberulent branchlets, petioles & pedicels. Leathery leaves to 200mm x 100mm. Terminal & axillary racemes to 450mm long of lilac to purple or blue flowers, pubescent blue or pale blue calyx, tube to 5mm x 5mm with glabrous lobes to 17mm x 10mm, violet or purplish corolla 10mm long, corolla tube to 5mm long, puberulent outside pubescent inside. Fruit has persistent calyx

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew