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Tournefortia angustiflora

Botanic Family

Boraginaceae

Author

Ruiz & Pavon

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• seasonally inundated areas
• coastal
• thickets

Flowering Times

• All year (Nic)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nic)

Scandent glabrous shrub, sometimes a liane or tree, angular hispid or glabate branches. Puberulent leaves to 200mm x 80mm. Inflorescences terminal or internodal spikes or cymes to 80mm long, white flowers, lobed calyx to 1.5mm long, flower tube 13mm long, greenish or yellowish-white corolla downy outside with tube to 15mm long & lobes to 6mm. Fruit ovoid glabrous berry, white, to 6mm diameter

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Standley