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Schubertia grandiflora

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Martius & Zuccarini

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Ceará
• Distrito Federale
• Goiás
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Piaui - Brazil
• Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• scrubland
• savanna
• cut-over forest
• riverside
• seasonally inundated areas
• secondary forest
• gallery forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep

Hairy twining shrub with umbels of fragrant white flowers to 45mm long with bearded corolla, odour of cucurbits, olive-green fruit with spinelike protuberances

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Huxley 1992
• NYBG
• FB
• Kew