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Tilesia baccata

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Pruski

Common Names

• Gros Bouton (Guadeloupe)
• Shining Bush (Tobago)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Distrito Federal
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Waterways
• forest margins
• coastal
• secondary vegetation
• thicket
• riverside
• shrubland
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (Tobago)

Fruiting Times

• Jun (Tobago)

Shrub, herbaceous vine or subshrub to 7.5m with quadrangular hairy stems. Glabrous or hairy crenate-serrulate leaves to 150mm x 90mm. Terminal & axillary inflorescences to 60mm long with bracts. Yellow to orange flowers, ray flowers to 17mm long, disc flowers to 15mm diameter. Fleshy achene to 4.5mm long.

Further References

• Botanicus, Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• LJB
• The Plant List 2
• Smithsonian
• SAFIO