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Prestonia longifolia

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Sesse & Moc.) J.F. Morales

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• N. Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Chiapas
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Apr-Jul (Nicaragua)

Twining liana or shrub with glabrous leaves to 130mm x 50mm, racemes of greenish-yellow or red-green flowers with yellow lobes yellow outside & yellow lines inside 15mm long with bracts to 0.7mm long, calyx lobes suffused with purple to 5mm long glabrous corolla with tube 18mm x 3mm & lobes to 10mm, 400mm long fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• Kew