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Prestonia trifida

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Poeppig) Woodson ex Gleason & A. C. Smith

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Ecuador
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• inundated areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Liana with leathery leaves to 300mm x 150mm. Corymbose inflorescence with minute bracts to 2mm longof puberulent greeny brown to yellow flowers banded white & darker yellow, central ring white with deep purple inside, coriaceous purplish calyx lobes to 15mm long, corolla tube to 18mm x 3mm with lobes to 10mm. 300mm long green-brown fruit.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant Lst 2
• NAF
• Kew
• FOPE