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Prestonia seemannii

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Miers

Conservation Status

Critically endangered.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Colombia
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Lakeside
• open areas
• disturbed forest

Flowering Times

• May-Nov (Panama)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Feb (Panama)

Liana with glabrate branchlets. Leaves to 260mm x 120mm, hispid above & velvety-tomentose beneath. Umbels with bracts to 9mm x 2mm, hispid sepals to 11mm x 4mm, yellow to cream hispid corolla with tube to 13mm x 4mm & lobes to 15mm x 6mm. Paired hispid follicles to 130mm x 14mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Novon
• Kew