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Prestonia quinquangularis

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Jacquin) K. Sprengel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Amazonas - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Leeward Islands
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Gallery forest
• forest edge
• riversides
• seasonally inundated areas
• secondary vegetation
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• May (Venezuela)

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Dec

Twining glabrous liana with lenticellate scabrous stems. Mucronate glabrous leaves to 230m x 100mm with crimson veins with young. Axillary racemes with bracts to 2mm long of many 22mm yellow-green flowers with yellowish limb inside tube white, with bracts to 2mm long, calyx 2mm x 4mm, calyx lobes to 2mm long, glabrous corolla, tube to 20mm x 5mm with lobes to 10mm x 25mm. Glabrous articulate paired follicles united at apex to 460mm long, dark brown.

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• NAF
• JAA
• Kew
• FOPE
• Rusby