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Rhabdadenia biflora
Rhabdadenia biflora
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (Jacquin) Mueller of Aargau
Common Names
- Rubber Vine
- Caoutchaoc (Haiti)
- Bejuco Mangle (Dominican Republic)
Geographical Habitats
- Antilles
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Minas Gerais - Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- S. Florida - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Coastal near mangroves
- riverside forest
- swamp
- salt marsh
- coastal forest
Flowering Times
- All year (Nicaragua
- Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- Sep-Oct (Nicaragua)
- Mar-Sep (Puerto Rico)
Climbing glabrous twining or floating vine with glabrous mucronate coriaceous leaves to 120mm x 50mm. Lateral & subterminal umbels or cymes to 3-flowered of 75mm white flowers with yellow tube, often pinkish outside with minute bracts, mucronulate calyx lobes to 9mm long, corolla to 57mm long, corolla tube 20mm x 2mm, throat 30mm x 15mm, lobes 25mm long, erect follicles to 160mm long,
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Herklots 1976
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- de Candolle
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- NAF
- FOSEUS
- Kew