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Pinochia monteverdensis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(J.F. Morales) M.E. Endress & B.F. Hansen

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Oaxaca - Mexico

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed forest
• wet premontane or montane tropical forest

Flowering Times

• Mar

Fruiting Times

• Aug (Costa Rica)

Liana with glabrous sometimes lenticellate branchlets. Glabrous leaves to 125mm x 35mm. Terminal corymbs of 14-35 greenish-yellow flowers with bracts to 2mm long, calyx lobes to 2mm long, cream to greenish-yellow corolla with tube to 2.5mm long & lobes to 4mm long. Glabrous green follicles to 280mm long.

Further References

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