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Piptocarpha poeppigiana

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(de Candolle) Baker

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest edge
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Mar-Jun(Nicaragua)
• Year round (Peru)

Fruiting Times

• Mar-Jun(Nicaragua)
• Year round (Peru)

Sometimes scandent shrub or drooping liana to 30m with cinereous or tomentose stems becoming glabrate. Coriaceous leaves glabrous above tomentose beneath to 200mm x 100mm. Axillary corymbs with bracteal leaves of 20-60 heads of 6 florets, 8mm x 4mm white fragrant flowers, glabrous corolla to 5mm long, corolla lobes to 3mm long. 5-ribbed glabrous or pubescent achenes to 7mm with white pappus bristles to 6.5mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• FOPE
• Standley