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Sabicea villosa

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Willdenow ex Roemer & Schultes

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Leeward Islands
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trindad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• forests
• riversides
• seasonally inundated areas
• coastal
• swamps
• wet forests
• secondary vegetation
• pasture
• thickets
• wooland
• evergreen forest

Flowering Times

• All year (Nic
• Puerto Rico
• Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua
• Puerto Rico
• Costa Rica)

Large hairy twining herbaceous or slightly woody vine or liana to 4m with hirsute branches. Sparsely hirsute leaves or pilose above, hairy beneath 140mm x 60mm. Few to densely flowered axillary fascicles with bracts, of white flowers, hirsute calyx tube with yellowish hair, with 5 lobes 4mm x 1.2mm, white hirsute or sparsely strigose corolla to 7mm long, tube hairy on outside to 6mm x 1mm, lobes to 2mm long. Strigose red to purple juicy fruit 10mm diameter.

Further References

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