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Tournefortia bicolor
Tournefortia bicolor
- Botanic Family
- Boraginaceae
- Author
- Swartz
Common Names
- Palo de Nigua (Mexico)
- Mirette (Dominica)
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Barbados
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amapá
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Espirito Santo
- Maranhao
- Minas Gerais
- Paraná
- Pará
- Sao Paulo - Brazil
- Mexico
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Guadaloupe
- Guyana
- Venezuela
- Cuba
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Tobago
- Trinidad
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Moist forest
- secondary vegetation
- forests
- coastal
- disturbed areas
- seasonally inundated areas
- cloud forest
- riverside
- shrubland
- thickets
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- May
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct All year (Nic) Feb-Aug (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Sep
- Nov All year (Nic)
- Feb-Aug (Puerto Rico)
Twining woody glabrous liana, shrub or tree with scabrous angular glabrous or hairy branchlets. Glabrous or pilose coriaceous leaves to 150mm x 90mm , sometimes pubescent & wrinkled above, puberulous venation beneath . Terminal cymes, corymbs or spikes to 200mm across x 40mm long of scented white flowers to 6.5mm long, hairy strigose white corolla to tube to 5mm long with 3mm lobes, limb to 7mm across, downy strigose calyx with lobes to 2.5mm long. Yellow-green to white glabrous ovoid drupes 8mm diameter.
Further References
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- G. Don
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- JAA
- Smithsonian
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Standley