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Schlegelia parviflora

Botanic Family

Schlegeliaceae

Author

(Oersted) Monachino

Hardiness Zone

10-11

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• São Paulo - Brazil
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Costa Rica
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Primary forest
• riverside
• tropical moist forest
• cloud forest
• coastal
• disturbed forest
• woodland edge

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Apr
• Sep
• Nov

Hemi-epiphytic glabrous liana or tree to 6m with sparsely lenticellate branchlets. Glabrous simple coriaceous leaves to 100mm x 50mm. Axillary spikes or panicles of scented white & purple flowers to 11mm long, calyx to 6mm long, white or pink corolla to 28mm long with tube to 8mm long & purple lobes to 5mm+ long. Green coriaceous fruit aging deep violet to 12mm diameter

Further References

• NYBG
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• RSNRV
• FOPE
• Standley