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Tassadia obovata
Tassadia obovata
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- Decaisne
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- S. Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Forest edge
- montane forest
- riverside
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
High-climbing slender herbaceous twiner or subshrub to 6m with puberulous or glabrous stems. Leaves to 70mm x 30mm, puberulous or glabrous above, glabrous beneath. Pale yellow star-shaped flowers black or brown on outside in 3-8-flowered axillary & terminal umbels or fascicles subtended by bractlets, flowers 3mm wide. sepals 1mm x 0.5mm, corolla tube 1.6mm long with lobes 1.8mm x 0.7mm.
Further References
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- Botanicus
- de Candolle
- The Plant List 2
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Rusby
- Kew