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Sabicea panamensis

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Wernham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Humid forest
• secondary vegetation
• disturbed areas
• forests
• seasonally inundated areas
• swamps
• tropical wet forest
• evergreen forest
• thickets
• hedges

Flowering Times

• Dec-Jul (Nic) All year (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Oct (Nic) All year (Costa Rica)

Large hairy shrub, tree or climber to 5m with strigose branches, leafy stems with yellowish hairs. Glabrate or strigose leaves to 160mm x 70mm, purple on underside of leaves. Strigose many-flowered cymes or corymbs 30mm diameter with 2-3 bracts to 8mm long, glabrate calyx tube to 2mm x 1.3mm with 5 lobes to 4.5mmx 1.2mm, strigose corolla white outside, tube to 10mm x 1mm with 5 lobes to 4.5mm long. Deep red or purple sparsely strigulose fruit to 10mm diameter.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• Rub Ven
• Rub Col
• The Plant List 2
• NAF
• Kew
• Flora Costaricensis
• FOPE
• Standley