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Randia armata

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

(Swartz) de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guadeloupe
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Trinidad & Tobago
• California - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal thickets
• forest

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Occasionally a liana, usually a tree, treelet or shrub to 6m with stout sharp spines to 25mm long, lenticellate branches. Glaborous or sparsely puberulent leaves to 220mm x 105mm, pilose or glabrate beneath. Dioecious flowers, calyx with 5 lobes to 9mm long, white or cream corolla, tube to 25mm long with 5 lobes 10mm long. Yellowish or greenish glabrous or sparsely puberulent fruit 35mm x 25m with black sweetish pulp.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• FOPE
• Standley
• Kew