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Salmea scandens

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Linnaeus) de Candolle

Common Names

• Bejuco de Muela (Puerto Rico)
• Tabacón
• Duerme-boca (El Salvador)
• Salta-afuera (El Salvador)

Geographical Habitats

• NW. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• riversides
• thickets
• montane forest
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Dec-May (Nicaragua)
• Nov-Apr (Puerto Rico)
• Nov-Mar (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-May (Nicaragua)
• Nov-Apr (Puerto Rico)
• Mar-Apr (Bolivia)

Glabrous scandent clambering shrub, sub-shrub or liana to 10m with hexagonal brown tomentose or glabrous striate branches. Coriaceous leaves to 120mm x 65mm, glabrous above & pilose beneath with dentate margins. Terminal & lateral cymes or panicles to 500mm long, heads to 7mm x 6mm with 3 series of pubescent phyllaries, greenish-white flowers, glabrous corolla 3mm long. Glabrous black achenes to 3.5mm long with awns to 2mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• RSNRV
• VOPR
• Gleason & Moldenke
• SAFIO
• Standley