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Prestonia tomentosa

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

R. Brown

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Minas Gerais
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland
• riverside
• forest
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Sep

Twining tomentose liana with glabrate stems. Leaves to 190mm x 120mm, rusty-hirtellous above & villous beneath. Axillary brown tomentose umbels, fascicles or corymbs with bracts to 18mm long, 25mm wide dark yellow flowers, calyx lobes to 18mm long, corolla tube to 18mm long with lobes to 12mm long. Divaricate rusty-hispid cream to brown follicles to 90mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Rodriguesia
• Kew
• FOPE