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Petrea pubescens

Botanic Family

Verbenaceae

Author

Turczaninow

Common Names

• Chivovo Gueb
• Penitente
• Pluma
• Guamo Macho
• Palo Santo
• Tostadito
• Totumito
• Pluma de la Reina

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Sometimes a liana, or shrub or tree to 20m. Hairy branchlets, mucronulate rough leaves to 150mm x 50mm. Racemes to 200mm +, flowers have violet bracts & pale blue calyx, pubescent calyx tube to 3.5mm long with glabrous lobes to 13mm x 5mm, puberulent corolla tube to 7m long pubescent within. Fruiting calyx to 6mm long with lobes to 22mm long.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew