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Prestonia exserta

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(A. de Candolle) Standley

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Leeward Islands
• Panama
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Oct (Tobago)
• Nov-Dec (Colombia)

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous pubescent twining vine or liana to 1.8m, leaves glabrous above glabrate beneath to 120mm x 60mm. Umbellate racemes of 12-20 yellow-green flowers with white throat & horns with bracts to 5mm long, calyx 15m long, puberulent calyx lobes to 7mm long, glabrous corolla to 30mm long, tube to 18mm x 3mm with lobes to 12mm long, limb 15mm wide. Glabrous follicles 290mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• NAF
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Rusby