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Prestonia mexicana

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

A. de Candolle

Common Names

• Cacho de Venado Lechoso

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• coastal
• primary & secondary forest
• disturbed areas
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (Nicaragua)
• Jan-Oct (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Mar (Nicaragua)
• All year (Mexico)

Corky ferrugineous-pubescent liana with glabrate branchlets, leaves to 270mm x 160mm, puberulent above & tomentose beneath. Terminal cymes or umbels with pubescent bracts to 17mmx 2.5, of white to greenish-yellow to cream flowers with yellow throat to 35mm long, tomentulose calyx lobes to 30mm x 12mm, corolla ferruginous-villose outside, tube 36mm x 5mm with lobes to 17mm x 11mm. Small pubescent twiner. Fruit brown-hairy divaricate paired follicles to 140mm x 20mm

Further References

• Mobot : NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• NAF
• Novon
• Kew
• Standley