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Rourea glabra

Botanic Family

Connaraceae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

• Tietie (Belize)
• Chilillo (Mexico)
• Mataperros (Mexico)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Santa Lucia
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Humid forest
• swamp
• forest
• coastal
• riverside. thickets. secondary vegetation
• montane forest & shrubland

Flowering Times

• Apr-Sep (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Apr (Nicaragua)
• Mar (Mexico)

Glabrous liana, twining shrub or tree with glabrous coriaceous leaves 80mm long, 3-9 leaflets to 120mm x 35mm. Terminal & axillary many-flowered pubescent panicles to 150mm long with small bracts to 1.3mm long, of highly perfumed white flowers 7mm wide, calyx to 3.5mm long, sepals 3mm long becoming 5mm long, glabrous petals 6mm x 2.5mm. Slightly curved orange-red capsules or follicles 18mm x 7mm

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• HUBM
• USNH
• FOG
• SAFIO
• Standley